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• Author(s): Andrew Stott • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Books & ReadingThis new edition of Andrew Stott's Comedy builds on themes presented in the first edition such as...

• Author(s): Andrew McConnell Stott • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Rout India • Subject: English LiteratureWhat is comedy? Andrew Stott tackles this question through an investigation of comic forms, theories and techniques...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Comedy of Errors, in five-acts, is one of the shortest and most lively of Shakespeare’s comedies. It was written during 1589—94 a...

• Author(s): J. Ahluwalia • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureRestoration Comedy has been attacked from different quarters for its immorality and profaneness. Eighteenth Century Comedy is very much the...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare | R.A. Foakes • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Arden Shak • Subject: English LiteratureThe Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative sc...

• Author(s): E. M. W. (Eustace Mandevill Tillyard • Publisher: Hassell Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Hassell Street Press • BISAC: Literary CollectionsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the kn...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare | R.A. Foakes • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury • Subject: English LiteratureThe Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative sc...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare• Publisher: Atlantic• Publisher Imprint: Peacock• Subject: English Literature   Collection of (1) The Tempest; The Tempest, a play in five acts, is believed to have been written in 1610-1611 and thought by many cri...

• Author(s): Sarbani Putatunda • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureAccording to the social historians of England, after the economic and religious unrest of the middle Tudor period, the freedom preache...

• Author(s): R. P. Draper • Publisher: Macmillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac • Subject: English Literature

• Author(s): Shanthi, Preethi • Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing • Publisher Imprint: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Theater - GeneralFor the past few decades people have been torn apart by wars, ...

• Author(s): Emma Smith • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: English LiteratureThis Guide introduces students to critical writing on Shakespeare’s comedies over the last four centuries. Guides students through four centur...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: English LiteratureWilliam Shakespeare's exuberant comedy As You Like It is his playful take on the Renaissance tradition of pastoral romance, edited by H.J....

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy in three Acts. The protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare Susan Snyder • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareUsually classified as a "problem comedy," All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturb...

• Author(s): Ben Jonson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Alchemist is considered Jonson’s best and most characteristic comedy. It was first performed in 1610 by King’s Men. Samuel Taylor Coleridg...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCandida, a classic comedy, was written in 1894. Set in London’s East End during the Victorian era, the play is about the domestic tur...

• Author(s): Matthew Bevis • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: HumorTo consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and...

• Author(s): Ben Jonson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureVolpone (or The Fox) is a comedy in five acts, performed about 1605–1606 and published in 1607, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast f...

• Author(s): J.F. Bernard • Publisher: Edinburgh UP • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareFrom the Back Cover'In this highly original discussion, J. F. Bernard provides a comprehensive analysis of Shakes...

• Author(s): William Shakespear | Keir Elam • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury • Subject: English LiteratureCritically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic c...

• Author(s): Bart Van Es • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: ShakespeareFrom 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 eight...

• Author(s): Murray Roston • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAbout the Book 'The Comic Mode' is an introductory guide to comedy in English literature that s...

• Author(s): Sean McEvoy • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: DramaShakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare. Exploring a...

• Author(s): Piggott | Ben • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe Routledge Pantomime Reader is the first anthology to document this en...

• Author(s): Lockwood • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAbout the Book This is the third and final volume of plays representing the only modern e...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA Midsummer Night's Dream, comedy in five acts by Shakespeare, written about 1595-96 and published in 1600 in a quarto edition from t...

• Author(s): Margaret L. Pachuau • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureA prominent experience of the post-war European generation was the acute inquiry about whether life was intrinsically good or evil, ...

• Author(s): Michelle O'Callaghan • Publisher: Edinburgh UP • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Asian - GeneralFrom the Back CoverRenaissance Dramatists Series Editor, Sean McEvoy An invaluable resource for all s...

• Author(s): Sunita Sinha | Carole Rozzonelli • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe legacy of the Shakespearean plays has been the subject of much scholarly analysis over the centuries. Indeed, so po...

• Author(s): Sunita Sinha | Carole Rozzonelli • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe legacy of the Shakespearean plays has been the subject of much scholarly analysis over the centuries. Indeed, so po...

• Author(s): Sommerstein • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalFrom the Back CoverAvailable online or as a 3-volume print set, The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy is a compreh...

• Author(s): Joseph Rosenblum • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • Subject: English LiteratureDesigned and written for students, this 4-volume set introduces the genres and major works that constitute Shakespeare's formidable ...