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Shakespeare survey. Vol. 32, The middle comedies

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of criticism and performance. For the first time, numbers 1-50 are being reissued in paperback.
Print Book, English, 2002
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
272 pages
9780521523707, 9780521523950, 0521523702, 0521523958
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List of plates; 1. Shakespeare's middle comedies: a generation of criticism; M. M. Mahood; 2. 'Perfect types of womanhood': Rosalind, Beatrice and Viola in Victorian criticism and performance Russell Jackson; 3. The stage representation of the 'Kill Claudio' sequence in Much Ado About Nothing J. F. Cox; 4. As You Like It adapted: Charles Johnson's Love in a Forest Edith Holding; 5. Social relations and the social order in Much Ado About Nothing Elliot Krieger; 6. Sexual disguise in As You Like It and Twelfth Night Nancy K. Hayles; 7. Twelfth Night and the myth of Echo and Narcissus D. J. Palmer; 8. 'Smiling at grief': some techniques of comedy in Twelfth Night and Così fan tutte Roger Warren; 9. 'My lady's a Catayan, we are politicians, Maluolios a peg-a-ramsie' (Twelfth Night II, iii, 77–8) Gustav Ungerer; 10. The importance of being marcade J. M. Nosworthy; 11. A Hebrew source for The Merchant of Venice S. J. Schönfeld; 12. The marriage contracts in Measure for Measure: a reconsideration Karl P. Wenterdorf; 13. Richard III: antecedents of Clarence's dream Harold F. Brooks; 14. Deep plots and indiscretions in 'The murder of Gonzago' M. R. Woodhead; 15. 'What isn't to leave betimes?' Proverbs and logic in Hamlet Joan Larsen Klein; 16. The Tempest: language and society Stanton B. Garner, Jr; 17. Pictorial evidence for a possible replica of the London Fortune Theatre in Gdansk Jerzy Limon; 18. A year of comedies: Stratford 1978 Roger Warren; 19. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study R. F. Hill, E. D. Pendry and George Walton Williams; Index.
Includes index