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Shakespeare and the ends of comedy

Discusses The Merchant of Venice, Much ado about nothing, As you like it, Twelfth night and Measure for measure
Print Book, English, ©1991
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©1991
Comedies
xiii, 158 pages ; 22 cm.
9780253330949, 0253330947
22859734
Crowning the end: the aggrandizement of closure in the reading of Shakespeare's comedies
"A wild of nothing, save of joy": the comic pleasures of The Merchant of Venice
"The career of ... humor": comedy's triumph in Much Ado About Nothing
Performative comedy in As You Like It
Speaking masterly: comic tone and comic preparation in Twelfth Night
Comic vitality and the cost of fantasy in Measure for Measure