The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and
contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's 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
Shakespeare's 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
Shakespeare's 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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