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A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works
Volume III
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major
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1A Companion to Romanticism
Edited by Duncan Wu
2 Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture
Edited by Herbert F. Tucker
3A Companion to Shakespeare
Edited by David Scott Kastan
4A Companion to the Gothic
Edited by David Punter
5A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare
Edited by Dympna Callaghan
6A Companion to Chaucer
Edited by Peter Brown
7A Companion to English Literature from Milton to Blake
Edited by David Womersley
8A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture
Edited by Michael Hattaway
9A Companion to Milton
Edited by Thomas N. Corns
10 A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry
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11 A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature
Edited by Phillip Pulsiano and
Elaine Treharne
12 A Companion to Restoration Drama
Edited by Susan J. Owen
13 A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing
Edited by Anita Pacheco
14 A Companion to English Renaissance Drama
Edited by Arthur Kinney
15 A Companion to Victorian Poetry
Edited by Richard Cronin, Alison
Chapman and Anthony Harrison
16 A Companion to the Victorian Novel
Edited by Patrick Brantlinger and
William B. Thesing
A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works
17 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume I:
Edited by Richard Dutton and
The Tragedies
Jean E. Howard
18 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume II
:
Edited by Richard Dutton and
The Histories
Jean E. Howard
19 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume III:
Edited by Richard Dutton and
The Comedies
Jean E. Howard
20 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume IV:
Edited by Richard Dutton and
The Poems, Problem Comedies, and Late Plays
Jean E. Howard
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A companion to Shakespeare’s works / edited by Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard.
p. cm. – (Blackwell companions to literature and culture; 17–20)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: v. 1. The tragedies – v. 2. The histories – v. 3. The comedies – v. 4. Poems,
problem comedies, late plays.
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1. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 – Criticism and interpretation – Handbooks, manuals,
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Contents
Notes on Contributors
vii
Introduction
1
1 Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy
4
2 Shakespeare’s Festive Comedies
23
3 The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in
Shakespearean Comedy
47
4 Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies
67
5 The Social Relations of Shakespeare’s Comic Households
90
6 Shakespeare’s Crossdressing Comedies
114
7 The Homoerotics of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Comedies
137
8 Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life
159
Janette Dillon
François Laroque
Gail Kern Paster
Peter Holbrook
Mario DiGangi
Phyllis Rackin
Julie Crawford
Lena Cowen Orlin
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