MARC Record from Marygrove College

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100 1 $aSlights, Camille Wells.
245 10 $aShakespeare's comic commonwealths /$cCamille Wells Slights.
260 $aToronto :$bUniversity of Toronto Press,$cc1993.
263 $a9305
300 $aviii, 290 p. ;$c24 cm.
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gpt. I.$tBelonging. --$tEgeon's friends and relations : The comedy of errors --$tThe raw and the cooked in The taming of the shrew --$gpt. II.$tCultural values and the values of culture. --$tCommon courtesy in The two gentlemen of Verona --$tLearning and language in Love's labor's lost --$gpt. III.$tChange and continuity. --$tThe changes and chances of mortal life in A midsummer night's dream --$tDeserving and diversity in The merchant of Venice --$gpt. IV.$tCourt and country. --$tPastoral and parody in The merry wives of Windsor --$tThe unauthorized language of Much ado about nothing --$gpt. V.$tRenewal and reciprocity. --$tChanging places in Arden : As you like it --$tThe principle of recompense in Twelfth night.
520 1 $a"Challenging the traditional view that Shakespeare's early comedies are about the experience of romantic love and constitute a genre called romantic comedy, Camille Wells Slights demonstrates that they dramatize individual action in the context of social dynamics, reflecting and commenting on the culture in which they originated. Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths sheds new light on ten Shakespearean comedies: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labor's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. In a diversity of comic forms - from rollicking farce to tragicomedy - these plays offer varying perspectives on the forces that make and mar human communities." "Dramatizing tensions between savagery and civilization, autonomy and dependence, and isolation and community, Shakespeare's comedies both reflect and comment on the society that produced them. Slights eschews viewing these comedies as endorsements of the prevailing ideologies of sixteenth-century England, or as subversions of that hierarchical, patriarchal culture. They can be most fruitfully understood as imaginative forms that present cultural practices, institutions, and beliefs as human constructions susceptible to critical scrutiny. While exposing the injustice and brutality as well as the assurances and satisfactions of social experience, Shakespeare's comedies represent people as inescapably social beings." "By combining historical scholarship with formal analysis and incorporating insights from social anthropology and feminist theory, Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths offers new readings of Shakespeare's early comedies and analyses the interaction between the plays and the social structures and processes of early modern England."--Jacket.
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