Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III

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).Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) and Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England:Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the Palgrave Literary Lives series.

"Whether for the student wishing for an overview of critical approaches or anxious to fill in the gaps in his Shakespearean culture, for those wishing to catch up on the diversity of literary theories, or for the inquisitive browser, this set of volumes assuredly charts the map of current criticism." Cahiers Elisabethains

• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction 11 Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy 4Janette Dillon 2 Shakespeare’s Festive Comedies 23Francois Laroque3 The Humour of It: Bodies, Fluids and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy 47Gail Kern Paster 4 Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies 67Peter Holbrook 5 The Social Relations of Shakespeare’s Comic Households 90Mario DiGangi 6 Shakespear’s Crossdressing Comedies 114Phyllis Rackin 7 The Homoerotics of Shakespear’s Elizabethan Comedies 137Julie Crawford 8 Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life 159Lena Cowen Orlin 9 Shakespeare’s Comic Geographies 182Garett A. Sullivan, Jr. 10 Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare’s Comedies 200Lloyd Davis11 Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff 223Ian Fredrick Moulton 12 Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre 243Barbare Hodgdon 13 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 266Jeffery Masten 14 “Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?” The Taming of the Shrew, Women’s Jest, and the Divided Audience 289Pamela Allen Brown 15 The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study 307Richard Dutton 16 Love’s Labour’s Lost 320John Michael Archer 17 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 338Helen Hackett 18 Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice 358Merion Wynne-Davis 19 The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor 376Wendy Wall 20 Much Ado About Nothing 393Alison Findlay 21 As You Like It 411Juliet Dusinberre 22 Twelfth Night: “The Babbling Gossip of the Air” 429Penny Gay Index 44