Essays, Mainly Shakespearean

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List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Part I: 1. 'Wrying but a little': marriage, law and sexuality in the plays of Shakespeare 2. Love's Labour's Lost (1953) 3. Shakespeare and the limits of language (1971) 4. Falstaff and the comic community (1985) 5. As You Like It and Twelfth Night: Shakespeare's 'sense of an ending' (1972) 6. 'Nature's piece 'gainst fancy': the divided catastrophe in Antony and Cleopatra (1974/1992) 7. Livy, Machiavelli and Shakespeare's Coriolanus (1985) 8. Leontes and the spider: language and speaker in Shakespeare's last plays (1980) 9. 'Enter Mariners wet': realism in Shakespeare's last plays (1986) Part II: 10. The king disguised: Shakespeare's Henry V and the comical history (1975) 11. 'He that plays the king': Ford's Perkin Warbeck and the Stuart history play (1977) 12. Oxymoron and the structure of Ford's The Broken Heart (1980) 13. Shakespeare and Jonson (1983) 14. London comedy and the ethos of the city (1979) 15. Comic London 16. Parks and Ardens (1992) Index.

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