A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies

'A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies' is a stimulating guide to the comedies of love - 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona', 'The Taming of the Shrew', 'Love's Labour's Lost', 'A Midsummer Nights Dream', 'Much Ado About Nothing', 'As You Like it and Twelfth Night' - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare's career. As well as supplying dramatic and critical analysis, this book sets the plays within their wider social and artistic context.

Michael Mangan is Senior Lecturer in Drama, Loughborough University.

List of illustrations
Prefaratory note and acknowledgements
Prologue Shakespeare's England- an overview
Contexts of Comedy
Laughter and Elizabethan Society
Fools, clowns and jesters
An audience for comedy
Twentieth century readers of comedy
Critical Analysis
Shakespeare's early comedies 1588-94
A Midsummer Night's Dream c.1595
Much Ado About Nothing 1598-9
As You Like It c. 1599
Twelfth Night
Reference Section
Short Biographies
Further Reading
Appendix: The Theatre of Shakespeare's London
Index
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A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies

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