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Shakespeare and comedy

Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy, invoking the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. This book asserts that Shakespeare's use of the comic mode is calculatedly unsettling, and that this is what makes it pleasurable.
Print Book, English, 2006
Thomson Learning, London, 2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
9781904271673, 9781904271444, 1904271677, 1904271448
64191421
Ch. 1. Comic manifestos
Ch. 2. Comic conversation and rough justice
Ch. 3. Lightness, love and death
Ch. 4. The plural bodies of Shakespeare's boys