As She Likes It tackles the question of how the unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies have been embodied in performance. Unique amongst both Shakespearean and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics affect the production of the comedies, and how gender is represented, both in the text and on the stage.
The Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies (Introductions to Literature)
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
...a balanced voice of experience and wisdom. Gay's is a book you might read without being compelled to, for the pleasure of learning more about plays that continue to work on the stage and on the page...
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The first collection of original critical material on Martin McDonagh, one of the most celebrated young playwrights of the last decade. Credited with reinvigorating contemporary Irish drama, his dark, despairing comedies have been performed extensively both on Broadway and in the West End.
This book relates Shakespeare's comedies to a broad European background. At the beginning and again at the end of his career, Shakespeare was attracted by a tradition of stage romances which can be traced back to Chaucer's time. But the main shaping behind his comedies came from the classical tradition. Mr Salingar therefore examines the underlying theme of 'errors' in Greek and Roman comedies and, taking three Italian comedies famous in the sixteenth century as examples, ...
Compass Classic Readers provide beginning and intermediate English language learners accessible adaptations of the greatest works of literature. Carefully designed to retell the stories using vocabulary and sentence structure approp...