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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy

Edited by Heather Hirschfeld

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Presents the most up-to-date scholarship on core themes of Shakespeare's comedies
Explores emerging critical topics such as eco-criticism and animal studies
Provides background on established critical tradition
Features chapters on performance practices and on stage and film history
Challenges received definitions of 'Shakespearean comedy'

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Published: 13 November 2018

592 Pages | 12 Illustrations

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ISBN: 9780198727682

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy

Edited by Heather Hirschfeld

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

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Author Information

Heather Hirschfeld, Professor of English, University of Tennessee

Heather Hirschfeld is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Joint Enterprises: Collaborative Drama and the Institutionalization of the English Renaissance Theater (U Mass P, 2004) and The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare (Cornell UP, 2014). She has been the recipient of NEH and Folger Shakespeare Library fellowships.

Contributors:

Amanda Bailey, University of Maryland
Simon Barker
James P. Bednarz, Long Island University
Kent Cartwright, University of Maryland
Helen Cooper, University of Cambridge
Kevin Curran, University of Lausanne
Geraldo U. de Sousa, University of Kansas
Joanne Diaz, Illinois Wesleyan University
Michelle M. Dowd, University of Alabama
Bridget Escolme, Queen Mary University of London
Kenneth J.E. Graham, University of Waterloo
Judith Haber, Tufts University
Heather Hirschfeld, University of Tennessee
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
Andy Kesson, University of Roehampton
Frederick Kiefer, University of Arizona
Douglas M. Lanier, University of New Hampshire
Erika T. Lin, Graduate Center, CUNY
Jeremy Lopez, University of Toronto
Kirk Melnikoff, University of North Carolina
Steve Mentz, St. John's University
Erin Minear, College of William & Mary
Robert S. Miola, Loyola University Maryland
Anne M. Myers, University of Missouri
David L. Orvis, Appalachian State University
John Parker, University of Virginia
Catherine Richardson, University of Kent
Carolyn Sale, University of Alberta
Julie Sanders, Newcastle University
Laurie Shannon
Katherine Scheil, University of Minnesota
Matthew Steggle, University of Bristol
Lina Perkins Wilder, Connecticut College

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy

Edited by Heather Hirschfeld

Oxford Handbooks

Presents the most up-to-date scholarship on core themes of Shakespeare's comedies
Explores emerging critical topics such as eco-criticism and animal studies
Provides background on established critical tradition
Features chapters on performance practices and on stage and film history
Challenges received definitions of 'Shakespearean comedy'

$150.00

Hardcover

Published: 13 November 2018

592 Pages | 12 Illustrations

9.7 x 6.7 inches

ISBN: 9780198727682

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