This book argues that the idea of metamorphosis is central to both the theory and practice of Shakespearean comedy. It offers a synthesis of several major themes of Shakespearean comedy--identity, change, desire, marriage, and comic form--under the master trope of transformation.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Product Description: This book contends that in Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare sought to discover the ways in which the imagination uses and abuses language. The author's critical reading shows that the characters are endowed with a wide variety of rhetorical disguises...read more

Product Description: The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations...read more

Product Description: For a convenient introduction to Shakespearean topics, plays and poems, direct patrons to this authoritative resource. Beginning with Vol. 27, this illustrated series focuses on criticism published after 1960 and provides the reader with a thematic approach to Shakespeare's works...read more

Product Description: Contains the complete annotated text of the play, followed by historical texts written within an approximately 75-year period on either side of the play's composition. The sources include writings discussing the play's "cultural afterlife," and its themes of sovereignty, treason, resistance, witchcraft and prophecy; discourses of the feminine; and the cultural construction of Scotland...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Selected from St. Nicholas magazine, a nostalgic collection features more than one hundred fifty stories, novellas, and poems about the dolls of yesteryear by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Sarah Orne Jewett.

Product Description: Investigating representations of poverty in Tudor-Stuart England, Fat King, Lean Beggar reveals the gaps and outright contradictions in what poets, pamphleteers, government functionaries, and dramatists of the period said about beggars and vagabonds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)