William Shakespeare: ComediesHarold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom William Shakespeare's comedies--including A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, and more--are funny, allusive, difficult, profound, and unforgettable, and have served as templates for other comedic works throughout the centuries. This invaluable new study guide contains a selection of the finest contemporary criticism of these classic plays. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Serious Comedy of Twelfth Night | 5 |
Country Matters | 23 |
Agency and the Threat of Cuckoldry | 47 |
Mimetic Service in The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 55 |
The Taming of a Shrew | 77 |
Stuffed with all honourable virtues | 97 |
Language Magic the Dromios and The Comedy of Errors | 127 |
We know what we know | 171 |
Shylocks Sacred Nation | 191 |
Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics | 217 |
Chronology | 247 |
Contributors | 249 |
253 | |
Acknowledgments | 261 |
263 | |
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