Description: Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy, Paperback by Hirschfeld, Heather (EDT), ISBN 0192894498, ISBN-13 9780192894496, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeares comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent
methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama.
Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeares source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship
and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material
conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeares period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections
between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule.
All the chapters offer contemporary perspectives on the plays even as they gesture to critical traditions, and they illuminate as well as challenge some of our most cherished expectations about the ways in which Shakespearean comedy affects its audiences. The Handbook situates these approaches
against the long history of criticism and provides a valuable overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.
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Book Title: Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy
Author: Hirschfeld, Heather (EDT)
Language: english
