Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III

Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at Lancaster University, author of Mastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama (1991) and Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England:Buggeswords (2000). He is editor of the Palgrave Literary Lives series. From 2003, he will be Professor of English at Ohio State University. Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of English at Columbia University and a past president of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is an editor of The Norton Shakespeare, and author of, among other works The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994) and, with Phyllis Rackin, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories (1997).

• Notes on Contributors. Introduction.1. Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy: Janette Dillon.2. Shakespeare’s Festive Comedies: François Laroque.3. The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy: Gail Kern Paster.4. Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies: Peter Holbrook.5. The Social Relations of Shakespeare’s Comic Households: Mario DiGangi.6. Shakespeare’s Crossdressing Comedies: Phyllis Rackin.7. The Homoerotics of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Comedies: Julie Crawford.8. Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life: Lena Cowen Orlin.9. Shakespeare’s Comic Geographies: Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.10. Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare’s Comedies: Lloyd Davis.11. Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff: Ian Frederick Moulton.12. Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre: Barbara Hodgdon.13. The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Jeffrey Masten.14. ‘Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?’ The Taming of the Shrew, Women’s Jest, and the Divided Audience: Pamela Allen Brown.15. The Comedy of Errors and the Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study: Richard Dutton.16. Love’s Labour’s Lost: John Michael Archer.17. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Helen Hackett.18. Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice: Marion Wynne-Davies.19. The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor: Wendy Wall.20. Much Ado About Nothing: Alison Findlay.21. As You Like It : Juliet Dusinberre.22. Twelfth Night: ‘The Babbling Gossip of the Air’: Penny Gay.Index.