OHB SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDY OHBK C

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy features a wide range of essays by leading scholars on key aspects of Shakespeare's comedies with contributions on classical and medieval sources, the literary and theatrical environment of early modern London, as well as chapters on religion, animals, music, sexual desire, architecture, and race.

Heather Hirschfeld is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Joint Enterprises: Collaborative Drama and the Institutionalization of the English Renaissance Theater (U Mass P, 2004) and The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare (Cornell UP, 2014). She has been the recipient of NEH and Folger Shakespeare Library fellowships.

- Introduction: Encountering Shakespearean Comedy
- Part I: Settings, Sources, Influences
- 1: James Bednarz: Encountering the Elizabethan Stage
- 2: Robert Miola: Encountering the Past I: Shakespeare's Reception of Classical Comedy
- 3: Helen Cooper: Encountering the Past II: Shakespearean Comedy, Chaucer, and Medievalism
- 4: Kirk Melnikoff: Encountering the Present I: Shakespeare's Early Urban Comedies and the Lure of True Crime and Satire
- 5: Andy Kesson: Encountering the Present II: Shakespearean Comedy and Elizabethan Drama
- Part II: Themes and Conventions
- 6: Kenneth Graham: Shakespearean Comedy and Early Modern Religious Culture
- 7: Amanda Bailey: Shakespearean Comedy and the Early Modern Marketplace: Sympathetic Economies
- 8: Catherine Richardson: Shakespearean Comedy and the Early Modern Domestic Sphere
- 9: Kent Cartwright: Place and Being in Shakespearean Comedy
- 10: Geraldo U. de Sousa: Shakespearean Comedy and the Question of Race
- 11: Simon Barker: Farce and Force: Shakespearean Comedy, Militarism, and Violence
- 12: Julie Sanders: Water Memory and the Art of Preserving: Shakespearean Comedy and Early Modern Cultures of Remembrance
- 13: Matthew Steggle: The Humors in Humor: Shakespeare and Early Modern Psychology
- 14: Kevin Curran: Shakespearean Comedy and the Senses
- 15: Steve Mentz: Green Comedy: Shakespeare and Ecology
- 16: Carolyn Sale: The Laws of Comedy: Shakespeare and Early Modern Legal Culture
- 17: Judith Haber: Comedy and Eros: Sexualities on Shakespeare's Stage
- 18: David L. Orvis: Queer Comedy
- 19: Erin Minear: The Music of Shakespearean Comedy
- 20: Michelle M. Dowd: Gender and Genre: Shakespeare's Comic Women
- 21: Anne M. Myers: The Architecture of Shakespearean Comedy: Domesticity, Performance, and the Empty Room
- 22: Laurie Shannon: Poor Things, Vile Things: Shakespeare's Comedy of Kinds
- Part III: Conditions and Performance
- 23: Lina Perkins Wilder: Stage Props and Shakespeare's Comedies: Keeping Safe Nerissa's Ring
- 24: Frederick Kiefer: Shakespearean Comedy and the Discourses of Print
- 25: Jeremy Lopez: Imagining Shakespeare's Audience
- 26: Erika T. Lin: Comedy on the Boards: Shakespeare's Use of Playhouse Space
- 27: Katherine Scheil: Adapting Shakespeare's Comedies
- 28: Bridget Escolme: Brexit Dreams: Comedy, Nostalgia, and Critique in Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 29: Doug Lanier: Shakespearean Comedy on Screen
- Part IV: Plays
- 30: John Parker: Holy Adultery: Marriage in The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, and The Merry Wives of Windsor
- 31: Joanne Diaz: Comedies of Tough Love: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labour's Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, and Much Ado About Nothing
- 32: Lisa Hopkins: Comedies of the Green World: A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night
- 33: Oliver Arnold: Problem Comedies: Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well