Author : Alexander Leggatt
Release : 2013-10-11
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 567/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Comedy of Love by : Alexander Leggatt
Download or read book Shakespeare's Comedy of Love written by Alexander Leggatt. This book was released on 2013-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987. This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The author shows that what distinguishes the comedies is not their similarity but their variety - the way in which each play is a new combination of essentially similar ingredients, so that, for example, the boy/girl changes in The Merchant of Venice are seen to have a quite different significance from those in As You Like It.