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1945-

,

Penny Gay

Cambridge University Press

ix, 153 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-150) and index

Introduction : comedy as idea and practice -- Farce : The comedy of errors, The taming of the shrew, The merry wives of Windsor -- Courtly lovers and the real world : Two gentlemen of Verona, A midsummer nightʹs dream, The merchant of Venice -- Comedy and language : Loveʹs labourʹs lost -- Romantic comedy : Much ado about nothing, As you like it, Twelfth night -- Problematic plots and endings : clowning and comedy post-Hamlet : Measure for measure, Allʹs well that ends well, The winterʹs tale, Cymbeline, The tempest -- The afterlives of Shakespeareʹs comedies

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2008

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