The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy

ISBN-13: 9780198727682 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 592 str.

Heather Hirschfeld

Opis

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy features a wide range of essays by leading scholars on key aspects of Shakespeare's comedies with contributions on classical and medieval sources, the literary and theatrical environment of early modern London, as well as chapters on religion, animals, music, sexual desire, architecture, and race.

Recenzje

Hirschfeld offers an elegant and urgent rationale for the concept in her introduction, doing much more than preparing readers for the essays that follow. ...The most exciting essays in the collection are those that work with the organizing concept. These are diverse in topic and come from all the sections. ...These articles unlock Shakespearean comedy from generic calcification, explanations of comedy that often serve to limit meaning and understanding of dramatic trajectories, contradictions, displacements, and inconsistencies. Cristina León Alfar, Renaissance Quarterly

O autorze

Heather Hirschfeld is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Joint Enterprises: Collaborative Drama and the Institutionalization of the English Renaissance Theater (U Mass P, 2004) and The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare (Cornell UP, 2014). She has been the recipient of NEH and Folger Shakespeare Library fellowships.