Shakespeare's Comedies: A Very Short Introduction

by Bart van Es

From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eighteen plays that can be called 'comedies': a far higher number than that for any other genre in which he wrote. So what is a Shakespearean comedy? We associate these plays with such themes as mistaken identities, happy marriages, and exuberant cross dressing, but how representative are these of the oeuvre...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198723350
• ISBN13: 9780198723356
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.5" x 6.8"