The Cambridge companion to Shakespearean comedy - Leggatt, Alexander (Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Machine generated contents note: Part 1: Shakespeare and comic tradition -- 1 Theories of comedy -- DAVID GALBRAITH -- 2 Roman comedy -- ROBERT S. MIOLA -- 3 Italian stories on the stage -- LOUISE GEORGE CLUBB -- 4 Elizabethan comedy -- JANETTE DILLON -- 5 Popular festivity -- FRANCOIS LAROQUE --Part 2: Shakespearean comedy -- 6 Forms of confusion -- JOHN CREASER -- 7 Love and courtship -- CATHERINE BATES -- 8 Laughing at "others" -- EDWARD BERRY -- 9 Comedy and sex -- ALEXANDER LEGGATT -- 10 Language and comedy -- LYNNE MAGNUSSON -- 11 Sexual disguise and the theatre of gender -- BARBARA HODGDON -- 12 Matters of state -- ANTHONY MILLER -- 13 The experiment of romance -- MICHAEL O'CONNELL.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-233) and index.
Keywords: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Comedies -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Comedy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc