Shakespeare's Comedies of Love / / Karen Bamford.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Bamford, Karen,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction /; Part I. Contexts for Shakespeare's Comedies of Love --; The Comedy of Love and the London Lord Mayor's Show /; A 'Pennyworth' of Marital Advice: Bachelors and Ballad Culture in Much Ado About Nothing /; Shakespeare's Comedies and American Club Women /; Part II. Love in Shakespeare's Comedies --; 'Five thousand year a boy': Love as Arrested Development /; Love's Labour's Lost and Won /; Affecting Desire in Shakespeare's Comedies of Love /; A Spirit of Giving in A Midsummer Night's Dream /; Love in the Contact Zone: Gender, Culture, and Race in The Merchant of Venice /; The Unity of Twelfth Night /; The Baby in the Handbag: 'Family Matters' in Shakespeare /; Part III. Shakespeare's Comedies of Love on the Contemporary Stage --; 'Songs of Apollo': Love's Labour's Lost in 1961 /; Smitten: Staging Love at First Sight at The Stratford Festival /; Romancing The Shrew: Recuperating a Comedy of Love /; Love in a Naughty World: Modern Dramatic Adaptations of The Merchant of Venice /; Staging the Jew: Playing with the Text of The Merchant of Venice /; Works Cited --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442689107; 9783110667691; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442689107
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Karen Bamford.

Borrowing its title from renowned scholar Alexander Leggatt's landmark 1974 study, Shakespeare's Comedies of Love is a tribute to a critic who has shaped the way the world understands Shakespeare and his comedies. To help celebrate his distinguished career as a teacher and scholar, this collection of essays presents a wide range of new work on the Bard's comedies. The contributors cover diverse areas of inquiry, including the use of the comedies as a source of women's empowerment in nineteenth-century America; civic drama in Elizabethan London; male anxiety about women in the comedies; anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice; as well as some key productions of Shakespeare's comedies. Rich in detail and broad in scope, Shakespeare's Comedies of Love is a celebration of Leggatt's distinguished career, and an enduring collection of work on the world's most famous writer.