The Oxford handbook of Shakespearean comedy Edited by Heather Hirschfeld.

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Hirschfeld, Heather

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TextLanguage: English Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 572 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cmISBN:

9780198727682

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Shakespearean comedy [Portion of title]

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822.33 23 HIR

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Introduction: Encountering Shakespearean Comedy, Heather Hirschfeld Part I: Settings, Sources, Influences 1:Encountering the Elizabethan Stage, James Bednarz 2:Encountering the Past I: Shakespeare's Reception of Classical Comedy, Robert Miola 3:Encountering the Past II: Shakespearean Comedy, Chaucer, and Medievalism, Helen Cooper 4:Encountering the Present I: Shakespeare's Early Urban Comedies and the Lure of True Crime and Satire, Kirk Melnikoff 5:Encountering the Present II: Shakespearean Comedy and Elizabethan Drama, Andy Kesson Part II: Themes and Conventions 6:Shakespearean Comedy and Early Modern Religious Culture, Kenneth Graham 7:Shakespearean Comedy and the Early Modern Marketplace: Sympathetic Economies, Amanda Bailey 8:Shakespearean Comedy and the Early Modern Domestic Sphere, Catherine Richardson 9:Place and Being in Shakespearean Comedy, Kent Cartwright 10:Shakespearean Comedy and the Question of Race, Geraldo U. de Sousa 11:Farce and Force: Shakespearean Comedy, Militarism, and Violence, Simon Barker 12:Water Memory and the Art of Preserving: Shakespearean Comedy and Early Modern Cultures of Remembrance, Julie Sanders 13:The Humors in Humor: Shakespeare and Early Modern Psychology, Matthew Steggle 14:Shakespearean Comedy and the Senses, Kevin Curran 15:Green Comedy: Shakespeare and Ecology, Steve Mentz 16:The Laws of Comedy: Shakespeare and Early Modern Legal Culture, Carolyn Sale 17:Comedy and Eros: Sexualities on Shakespeare's Stage, Judith Haber 18:Queer Comedy, David L. Orvis 19:The Music of Shakespearean Comedy, Erin Minear 20:Gender and Genre: Shakespeare's Comic Women, Michelle M. Dowd 21:The Architecture of Shakespearean Comedy: Domesticity, Performance, and the Empty Room, Anne M. Myers 22:Poor Things, Vile Things: Shakespeare's Comedy of Kinds, Laurie Shannon Part III: Conditions and Performance 23:Stage Props and Shakespeare's Comedies: Keeping Safe Nerissa's Ring, Lina Perkins Wilder 24:Shakespearean Comedy and the Discourses of Print, Frederick Kiefer 25:Imagining Shakespeare's Audience, Jeremy Lopez 26:Comedy on the Boards: Shakespeare's Use of Playhouse Space, Erika T. Lin 27:Adapting Shakespeare's Comedies, Katherine Scheil 28:Brexit Dreams: Comedy, Nostalgia, and Critique in Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bridget Escolme 29:Shakespearean Comedy on Screen, Doug Lanier Part IV: Plays 30:Holy Adultery: Marriage in The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, John Parker 31: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 32:Comedies of the Green World: A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night, Lisa Hopkins 33:Problem Comedies: Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well, Oliver Arnold

Summary: The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama. Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeare's source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeare's period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule. The Handbook situates these approaches against the long history of criticism and provides a valuable overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.

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Introduction: Encountering Shakespearean Comedy, Heather Hirschfeld
Part I: Settings, Sources, Influences
1:Encountering the Elizabethan Stage, James Bednarz
2:Encountering the Past I: Shakespeare's Reception of Classical Comedy, Robert Miola
3:Encountering the Past II: Shakespearean Comedy, Chaucer, and Medievalism, Helen Cooper
4:Encountering the Present I: Shakespeare's Early Urban Comedies and the Lure of True Crime and Satire, Kirk Melnikoff
5:Encountering the Present II: Shakespearean Comedy and Elizabethan Drama, Andy Kesson
Part II: Themes and Conventions
6:Shakespearean Comedy and Early Modern Religious Culture, Kenneth Graham
7:Shakespearean Comedy and the Early Modern Marketplace: Sympathetic Economies, Amanda Bailey
8:Shakespearean Comedy and the Early Modern Domestic Sphere, Catherine Richardson
9:Place and Being in Shakespearean Comedy, Kent Cartwright
10:Shakespearean Comedy and the Question of Race, Geraldo U. de Sousa
11:Farce and Force: Shakespearean Comedy, Militarism, and Violence, Simon Barker
12:Water Memory and the Art of Preserving: Shakespearean Comedy and Early Modern Cultures of Remembrance, Julie Sanders
13:The Humors in Humor: Shakespeare and Early Modern Psychology, Matthew Steggle
14:Shakespearean Comedy and the Senses, Kevin Curran
15:Green Comedy: Shakespeare and Ecology, Steve Mentz
16:The Laws of Comedy: Shakespeare and Early Modern Legal Culture, Carolyn Sale
17:Comedy and Eros: Sexualities on Shakespeare's Stage, Judith Haber
18:Queer Comedy, David L. Orvis
19:The Music of Shakespearean Comedy, Erin Minear
20:Gender and Genre: Shakespeare's Comic Women, Michelle M. Dowd
21:The Architecture of Shakespearean Comedy: Domesticity, Performance, and the Empty Room, Anne M. Myers
22:Poor Things, Vile Things: Shakespeare's Comedy of Kinds, Laurie Shannon
Part III: Conditions and Performance
23:Stage Props and Shakespeare's Comedies: Keeping Safe Nerissa's Ring, Lina Perkins Wilder
24:Shakespearean Comedy and the Discourses of Print, Frederick Kiefer
25:Imagining Shakespeare's Audience, Jeremy Lopez
26:Comedy on the Boards: Shakespeare's Use of Playhouse Space, Erika T. Lin
27:Adapting Shakespeare's Comedies, Katherine Scheil
28:Brexit Dreams: Comedy, Nostalgia, and Critique in Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bridget Escolme
29:Shakespearean Comedy on Screen, Doug Lanier
Part IV: Plays
30:Holy Adultery: Marriage in The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, John Parker
31: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
32:Comedies of the Green World: A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night, Lisa Hopkins
33:Problem Comedies: Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well, Oliver Arnold

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama.

Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeare's source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeare's period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule. The Handbook situates these approaches against the long history of criticism and provides a valuable overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.

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