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Shakespeare`s Comedies: A Very Short Introduction

From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eighteen plays that can be called `comedies`: a far higher number than that for any other genre in which he wrote. In this Very Short Introduction, Bart Van Es explores the full range of the playwright`s comic writing, from the neat classical plotting of early works like The Comedy of Errors to the corrupt world of the so-called problem plays, written in the middle years of Shakespeare`s life. Examining Shakespeare`s influences and sources, Van Es compares his plays to those of his rivals, and looks at the history of the plays in performance, from the biographies of Shakespeare`s original actors to the plays` endless reinvention in modern stage productions and in films.Identifying the key qualities that make Shakespearean comedy distinctive, Van Es traces the changing nature of Shakespeare`s comic writing over the course of a career that spanned nearly a quarter century of theatrical change.

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