Shakespeare's Comedies of Love / / 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 co...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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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