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Mangan, Michael         (A) Preface to Shakespeare's comedies / by Michael Mangan . – London : Routledge, 2016         x, 300p. ; 21 cm. . – ( Preface books)         Includes bibliography, appendix and index.         PART I : CONTEXTS OF COMEDY : Laughter and Elizabethan society -- Fools, clowns and jesters -- An audience for comedy -- Twentieth-century reading of comedy -- PART II : CRITICAL ANALYSIS : Shakespeare's early comedies -- A midsummer nights dream -- Much Ado about nothing -- As you like it -- Twelfth night         ISBN9781138695108 (pbk) : Rs. 895.00         1. English literature – Elizabethan period – Drama – William Shakespeare