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Literary Criticism Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Comedies of Love

by (author) Karen Bamford

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2008
Category
Shakespeare
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442690554
    Publish Date
    Dec 2008
    List Price
    $76.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802039538
    Publish Date
    Dec 2008
    List Price
    $91.00

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Description

Borrowing its title from renowned scholar Alexander Leggatt's landmark 1974 study, Shakespeare's Comedies of Love is a tribute to a critic who has shaped the way the world understands Shakespeare and his comedies. To help celebrate his distinguished career as a teacher and scholar, this collection of essays presents a wide range of new work on the Bard's comedies.

The contributors cover diverse areas of inquiry, including the use of the comedies as a source of women's empowerment in nineteenth-century America; civic drama in Elizabethan London; male anxiety about women in the comedies; anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice; as well as some key productions of Shakespeare's comedies.

Rich in detail and broad in scope, Shakespeare's Comedies of Love is a celebration of Leggatt's distinguished career, and an enduring collection of work on the world's most famous writer.

About the author

Karen Bamford is the Charles and Joseph Allison Chair of English Language and Literatures at Mount Allison University.

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