The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies

by Penny Gay

Book Overview

Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521672694
• ISBN13: 9780521672696
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.9"