First published in 1957. This edition reprints the second edition of 1962. The second edition of this book contains an extensive new chapter on "Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale" and " The Tempest."

This is a survey of Shakepeare's comedies which illustrates the playwright's increasing grasp on the art and idea of comedy.

This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The author shows that what distinguishes the comedies is not their similarity but their variety.

This book discovers what the sources to Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies really were and considers the dramatic reasons for Shakespeare's departure from them.

In this study of Shakespeare's ten early comedies, from "The Comedy of Errors" to "Twelfth Night," the concept of a dynamic of comic form is developed.

In this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create self-conscious characters who seem lifelike or realistic.

First published in 1980. At their most successful, Shakespeare's styles are strategies to make plain the limits of thought and feeling which define the significance of human actions. Baxter analyses the way in which these limits are reached.

What is the relation between the language being heard and the picture being exhibited on the stage ? Typically there is an identity between sound and sight, but often there is a divergence between what the audience hears and what it sees.

In this study, Shakespeare's own life story and the development of English theatrical history are placed in the wider context of Elizabethan and Jacobean times but the works themselves are the final objective of this 'applied biography'.

This book shows the dramatic strategies of scenic repetition and character separation. It traces the way in which Shakespeare often presents recurring gestures, dramatic interactions and complex scenic structures at widely separated intervals.