TY - BOOK AU - Mangan, Michael TI - (A) Preface to Shakespeare's comedies SN - 9781138695108 (pbk) U1 - 822.33 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - English literature KW - Elizabethan period KW - Drama KW - William Shakespeare N1 - 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 ER -