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Ten. Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Foreword xi
  4. Preface xvii
  5. One. Introduction: The Saturnalian Patter 1
  6. Two. Holiday Custom and Entertainment 16
  7. Three. Misrule as Comedy; Comedy as Misrule 39
  8. Four. Prototypes of Festive Comedy in a Pageant Entertainment: Summer’s Last Will and Testament 64
  9. Five. The Folly of Wit and Masquerade in Love’s Labour’s Lost 98
  10. Six. May Games and Metamorphoses on a Midsummer Night 135
  11. Seven. The Merchants and the Jew of Venice: Wealth’s Communion and an Intruder 185
  12. Eight. Rule and Misrule in Henry IV 219
  13. Nine. The Alliance of Seriousness and Levity in As You Like It 252
  14. Ten. Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night 272
  15. Index 297
Shakespeare's Festive Comedy
This chapter is in the book Shakespeare's Festive Comedy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400839858.272

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Foreword xi
  4. Preface xvii
  5. One. Introduction: The Saturnalian Patter 1
  6. Two. Holiday Custom and Entertainment 16
  7. Three. Misrule as Comedy; Comedy as Misrule 39
  8. Four. Prototypes of Festive Comedy in a Pageant Entertainment: Summer’s Last Will and Testament 64
  9. Five. The Folly of Wit and Masquerade in Love’s Labour’s Lost 98
  10. Six. May Games and Metamorphoses on a Midsummer Night 135
  11. Seven. The Merchants and the Jew of Venice: Wealth’s Communion and an Intruder 185
  12. Eight. Rule and Misrule in Henry IV 219
  13. Nine. The Alliance of Seriousness and Levity in As You Like It 252
  14. Ten. Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night 272
  15. Index 297
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