The Oxford handbook of Shakespearean comedy / edited by Heather Hirschfeld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hirschfeld, Heather Anne, 1968- editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Oxford handbooks in literature.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays--Selections.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Other Title:

Shakespearean comedy

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

System Details:

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Summary:

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical, contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages with perennial but still urgent questions raised by the comedies, looking at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama. Some essays take up firmly established topics of inquiry, such as Shakespeare's source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and reformulate them in the kinds of materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects: ecology, cross-species interaction, humoral theory, that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation.

Contents:

Encountering the Elizabethan Stage / James Bednarz

Place and Being in Shakespearean Comedy / Kent Cartwright

Farce and Force: Shakespearean Comedy, Militarism, and Violence / Simon Barker

Water Memory and the Art of Preserving: Shakespearean Comedy and Early Modern Cultures of Remembrance / Julie Sanders

The Humors in Humor: Shakespeare and Early Modern Psychology / Matthew Steggle

Green Comedy: Shakespeare and Ecology / Steve Mentz

The Laws of Comedy: Shakespeare and Early Modern Legal Culture / Carolyn Sale

Comedy and Eros: Sexualities on Shakespeare's Stage / Judith Haber

The Architecture of Shakespearean Comedy: Domesticity, Performance, and the Empty Room / Anne M. Myers

The Music of Shakespearean Comedy / Erin Minear

Encountering the Past I: Shakespear's Reception of Classical Comedy / Robert Miola

Gender and Genre: Shakespeare's Comic Women / Michelle M. Dowd

Poor Things, Vile Things: Shakespeare's Comedy of Kinds / Laurie Shannon

Shakespearean Comedy and the Senses / Kevin Curran

Stage Props and Shakespeare's Comedies: Keeping Safe Nerissa's Ring / Lina Perkins Wilder

Shakespearean Comedy and the Discourses of Print / Frederick Kiefer

Imagining Shakespeare's Audience / Jeremy Lopez

Comedy on the Boards: Shakespeare's Use of Playhouse Space / Erika T. Lin

Adapting Shakespeare's Comedies / Katherine Scheil

Brexit Dreams: Comedy, Nostalgia, and Critique in Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream / Bridget Escolme

Encountering the Past II: Shakespearean Comedy, Chaucer, and Medievalism / Helen Cooper

Shakespearean Comedy on Screen / Douglas M. Lanier

Holy Adultery: Marriage in The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, and The Merry Wives of Windsor / John Parker

Comedies of Tough Love: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labour's Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, and Much Ado about Nothing / Joanne Diaz

Comedies of the Green World: A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night / Lisa Hopkins

Problem Comedies: Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, and All's Well that Ends Well / Oliver Arnold

Shakespearean Comedy and the Question of Race / Geraldo U. de Sousa

Queer Comedy / David L. Orvis

Introduction: "Encountering Shakespearean Comedy" / Heather Hirschfeld

Encountering the Present I: Shakespeare's Early Urban Comedies and the Lure of True Crime and Satire / Kirk Melnikoff

Encountering the Present II: Shakespearean Comedy and Elizabethan Drama / Andy Kesson

Shakespearean Comedy and Early Modern Religious Culture / Kenneth Graham

Shakespearean Comedy and the Early Modern Marketplace: Sympathetic Economies / Amanda Bailey

Shakespearean Comedy and the Early Modern Domestic Sphere / Catherine Richardson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 4, 2018).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191839610

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.