Shakespeare's sweet thunder : essays on the early comedies / edited by Michael J. Collins.

Other author Collins, Michael J., 1941-
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press, 1997.
Description249 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: the afterlife of Shakespeare's early comedies / Michael J. Collins -- The influence of new comedy on The comedy of errors and The taming of the shrew / Robert S. Miola -- The tamings of the shrews / Alan C. Dessen -- Love's labor's lost: burn the parasols, play the Quarto! / Homer Swander -- Convents, conventions, and contraventions: Love's labor's lost and The convent of pleasure / Jeanne Addison Roberts -- "Errors" and "labors": feminism and early Shakespearean comedy / Ann Thompson -- A night of errors and the dawn of empire: male enterprise in The comedy of errors / Bruce R. Smith -- The two gentlemen of Verona on stage: protean problems and protean solutions / Carol J. Carlisle and Patty S. Derrick -- The disappearance and return of Love's labor's lost / Miriam Gilbert -- Kate, Bianca, Ruth, and Sarah: playing the woman's part in The taming of the shrew / Carol Rutter -- A new watershed? Robert Lepage's "Mudsummer" night's dream / Jay L. Halio -- Teaching Shakespeare's early comedies / Ralph Alan Cohen.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96005747
ISBN0874135826 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PR2981 .S435 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold