Leggatt Shakespeare's Comedy of Love

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-55649-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leggatt, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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