Shakespeare's Comedy of Love

by Alexander Leggatt

Overview

First published in 1987.
This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The author shows that what distinguishes the comedies is not their similarity but their variety - the way in which each play is a new combination of essentially similar ingredients, so that, for example, the boy/girl changes in The Merchant of Venice are seen to have a quite different significance from those in As You Like It.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136556562
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/11/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	362 KB

About the Author

Alexander Leggatt

Table of Contents

1. The Comedy of Errors 2. The Two Gentlemen of Verona 3. The Taming of the Shrew 4. Love's Labour's Lost 5. A Midsummer Night's Dream 6. The Merchant of Venice 7. Much Ado About Nothing 8. As You Like It 9. Twelfth Night 10. Conclusion: beyond Twelfth Night

Editorial Reviews

'A thoughtful and open-minded book, which should prove helpful both to the general reader and to students of Shakespeare.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

'For a sane conspectus of Shakespeare's comedies....Leggatt can hardly be bettered...perhaps the best book on the comedies.' Kenneth Muir, The Literary Half-Year.

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