'A thoughtful and open-minded book, which should prove helpful both to the general reader and to students of Shakespeare.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'For a sane conspectus of Shakespeare's comedies....Leggatt can hardly be bettered...perhaps the best book on the comedies.' Kenneth Muir, The Literary Half-Year.

• 1. The Comedy of Errors 2. The Two Gentlemen of Verona 3. The Taming of the Shrew 4. Love's Labour's Lost 5. A Midsummer Night's Dream 6. The Merchant of Venice 7. Much Ado About Nothing 8. As You Like It 9. Twelfth Night 10. Conclusion: beyond Twelfth Night

'A thoughtful and open-minded book, which should prove helpful both to the general reader and to students of Shakespeare.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'For a sane conspectus of Shakespeare's comedies....Leggatt can hardly be bettered...perhaps the best book on the comedies.' Kenneth Muir, The Literary Half-Year.

• 1. The Comedy of Errors 2. The Two Gentlemen of Verona 3. The Taming of the Shrew 4. Love's Labour's Lost 5. A Midsummer Night's Dream 6. The Merchant of Venice 7. Much Ado About Nothing 8. As You Like It 9. Twelfth Night 10. Conclusion: beyond Twelfth Night

'A thoughtful and open-minded book, which should prove helpful both to the general reader and to students of Shakespeare.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'For a sane conspectus of Shakespeare's comedies....Leggatt can hardly be bettered...perhaps the best book on the comedies.' Kenneth Muir, The Literary Half-Year.

• 1. The Comedy of Errors 2. The Two Gentlemen of Verona 3. The Taming of the Shrew 4. Love's Labour's Lost 5. A Midsummer Night's Dream 6. The Merchant of Venice 7. Much Ado About Nothing 8. As You Like It 9. Twelfth Night 10. Conclusion: beyond Twelfth Night