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offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field.  \n1 A Companion to Romanticism Edited by Duncan Wu  \n2 Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture Edited by Herbert F. Tucker  \n3 A Companion to Shakespeare Edited by David Scott Kastan  \n4 A Companion to the Gothic Edited by David Punter  \n5 A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare Edited by Dympna Callaghan  \n6 A Companion to Chaucer Edited by Peter Brown  \n7 A Companion to English Literature from Milton to Blake Edited by David Womersley  \n8 A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture Edited by Michael Hattaway  \n9 A Companion to Milton Edited by Thomas N. Corns  \n10 A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry Edited by Neil Roberts  \n11 A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature Edited by Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne  \n12 A Companion to Restoration Drama Edited by Susan J. Owen  \n13 A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing Edited by Anita Pacheco  \n14 A Companion to English Renaissance Drama Edited by Arthur Kinney  \n15 A Companion to Victorian Poetry Edited by Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman and Anthony Harrison  \n16 A Companion to the Victorian Novel Edited by Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing  \nA Companion to Shakespeare’s Works  \n17 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume I: Edited by Richard Dutton and The Tragedies Jean E. Howard  \n18 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume II: Edited by Richard Dutton and The Histories Jean E. Howard  \n19 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume III: Edited by Richard Dutton and The Comedies Jean E. Howard  \n20 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume IV: Edited by Richard Dutton and The Poems, Problem Comedies, and Late Plays Jean E. Howard  \nB L A C K W E L L C O M PA N I O N S T O  \nLITERATURE AND CULTURE  \nr  \nA C O M PA N I O N T O  \nSHAKESPEARE’S WORKS  \nr  \nEditorial material and organization copyright © 2003 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd  \n350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5018, USA  \n108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK  \n550 Swanston Street, Carlton South, Victoria 3053, Australia  \nKurfürstendamm 57, 10707 Berlin, Germany  \nThe right of Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard to be identified as the Authors of the Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher.  \nFirst published 2003 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nA companion to Shakespeare’s works / edited by Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).–(Blackwell companions to literature and culture; 17–20)  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nContents: v. 1. The tragedies – v. 2. The histories – v. 3. The comedies – v. 4. Poems, problem comedies, late plays.  \nISBN 0-631-22634-6 (v. 3 : alk. paper)  \n1. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 – Criticism and interpretation – Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Dutton, Richard, 1948– II. Howard, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1948– III. Series.  \nPR2976 .C572 2003  \n822.3¢3–dc21 2002074602  \nISBN 1-405-10730-8 (four-volume set)  \nA catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.  \nSet in 11 on 13 pt Garamond 3  \nby SNP Bes","cbCaigiHPArLPzaW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigiHPArLPzaW","pdf",1412029,475,"English","# Introduction\n# Notes on Contributors\n## Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy\n## Shakespeare’s Festive Comedies\n## The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy\n## Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies\n## The Social Relations of Shakespeare’s Comic Households\n## Shakespeare’s Crossdressing Comedies\n## The Homoerotics of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Comedies\n## Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life\n## Shakespeare’s Comic Geographies\n## Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare’s Comedies\n## Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff\n## Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre\n## The Two Gentlemen of Verona\n## \"Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?\" The Taming of the Shrew, Women’s Jest, and the Divided Audience\n## The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study\n## Love’s Labour’s Lost\n## A Midsummer Night’s Dream\n## Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice\n## The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor\n## Much Ado About Nothing\n## As You Like It\n## Twelfth Night: “The Babbling Gossip of the Air”","[{\"question\":\"What kind of scholarly coverage does this volume provide?\",\"answer\":\"It offers newly written surveys of key periods and movements and addresses major authors within English literary culture and history, using perspectives on canonical and post-canonical texts.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the reader positioned within the editorial approach?\",\"answer\":\"The work orients beginning students in new fields of study while also providing current and new directions for experienced undergraduates and new graduate readers.\"},{\"question\":\"Which overall topic area does Volume III focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The volume’s chapter list concentrates on Shakespearean comedy—its traditions, humor, social relations, themes such as crossdressing and homoerotics, and analyses of specific comedies and related texts.\"}]","A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works - Volume III - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture - Editorial Material | PDF",1789770508,732]