Literary Criticism Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Comedies of Love
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2008
- Category
- Shakespeare
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442690554
- Publish Date
- Dec 2008
- List Price
- $76.00
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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.