Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford handbook of Shakespearean comedy / edited by Heather Hirschfeld.

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Hirschfeld, Heather Anne, 1968-

Description

xix, 572 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

This book offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama. Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeare's source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeare's period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule. The book situates these approaches against the long history of criticism and provides an overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.

Series Statement

Oxford handbooks

Uniform Title

Oxford handbooks.

Subjects

• Humorous plays
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Comedies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFF 18-2245

ISBN

• 0198727682
• 9780198727682

LCCN

2018931183

OCLC

1019633270

Title

The Oxford handbook of Shakespearean comedy / edited by Heather Hirschfeld.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford handbooks

Oxford handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hirschfeld, Heather Anne, 1968- editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 18-2245