Book description
CONTENTS:
1. The Presentation of Comedy: The First Ten Plays
2. "Were man but constant, but were perfect": Constancy and Consistency in The Two Gentlemen in Verona
3. Shakespeare Without Sources
4. Grace, Art and the Neglect of Time in Love’s Labour’s Lost
5. The Merchant of Venice, or the Importance of Being Earnest
6. The Owl and the Cuckoo: Voices of Maturity in Shakespeare’s Comedies
7. Shakespeare’s Fools: The Shadow and the Substance of Drama
8. As You Like It and Twelfth Night: Shakespeare’s Sense of an Ending
9. Theatrical Trompe l’oeil in Measure for Measure
10. Two Unassimilable Men
