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

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Bamford, Karen -- Part I. Contexts for Shakespeare's Comedies of Love -- The Comedy of Love and the London Lord Mayor's Show / Lancashire, Anne -- A 'Pennyworth' of Marital Advice: Bachelors and Ballad Culture in Much Ado About Nothing / Collington, Philip D. -- Shakespeare's Comedies and American Club Women / West Scheil, Katherine -- Part II. Love in Shakespeare's Comedies -- 'Five thousand year a boy': Love as Arrested Development / Astington, John H. -- Love's Labour's Lost and Won / Bevington, David -- Affecting Desire in Shakespeare's Comedies of Love / Budra, Paul -- A Spirit of Giving in A Midsummer Night's Dream / Ackerman, Alan L. -- Love in the Contact Zone: Gender, Culture, and Race in The Merchant of Venice / Westfall, Suzanne -- The Unity of Twelfth Night / Kinney, Arthur F. -- The Baby in the Handbag: 'Family Matters' in Shakespeare / Somerset, Alan -- Part III. Shakespeare's Comedies of Love on the Contemporary Stage -- 'Songs of Apollo': Love's Labour's Lost in 1961 / Parker, R. B. -- Smitten: Staging Love at First Sight at The Stratford Festival / McGee, C. E. -- Romancing The Shrew: Recuperating a Comedy of Love / Shand, G. B. -- Love in a Naughty World: Modern Dramatic Adaptations of The Merchant of Venice / Levenson, Jill L. -- Staging the Jew: Playing with the Text of The Merchant of Venice / Ostovich, Helen -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index