'Professor Nevo does three things at once: she analyses Shakespeare's early comedies, she interprets them in the light of a theory of comedy, and she traces Shakespeare's development as a comic dramatist. She not only achieves these aims with superb confidence, but she successfully integrates her different concerns in a chapter-by-chapter discussion of the plays.' English Studies.

• Chapter 1 Shakespeare’s New Comedy; Chapter 2 ‘My Glass and Not my Brother’; Chapter 3 ‘Kate of Kate Hall’; Chapter 4 The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Chapter 5 Navarre’s World of Words; Chapter 6 Fancy’s Images; Chapter 7 Jessica’s Monkey; or, the Goodwins; Chapter 8 The Case of Falstaff and the Merry Wives; Chapter 9 ‘Better than Reportingly’; Chapter 10 Existence in Arden; Chapter 11 Nature’s Bias; Chapter 12 Comic Remedies;

'Professor Nevo does three things at once: she analyses Shakespeare's early comedies, she interprets them in the light of a theory of comedy, and she traces Shakespeare's development as a comic dramatist. She not only achieves these aims with superb confidence, but she successfully integrates her different concerns in a chapter-by-chapter discussion of the plays.' English Studies.

• Chapter 1 Shakespeare’s New Comedy; Chapter 2 ‘My Glass and Not my Brother’; Chapter 3 ‘Kate of Kate Hall’; Chapter 4 The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Chapter 5 Navarre’s World of Words; Chapter 6 Fancy’s Images; Chapter 7 Jessica’s Monkey; or, the Goodwins; Chapter 8 The Case of Falstaff and the Merry Wives; Chapter 9 ‘Better than Reportingly’; Chapter 10 Existence in Arden; Chapter 11 Nature’s Bias; Chapter 12 Comic Remedies;