Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Credits xvii
5. Abbreviations xix
6. Introduction xxiii
7. 1. The Argument of Comedy 1
8. 2. Don Quixote 14
9. 3. Comic Myth in Shakespeare 20
10. 4. Characterization in Shakespearean Comedy 33
11. 5. Molière’s Tartuffe 42
12. 6. Introduction to Shakespeare’s Tempest 44
13. 7. The Structure of Imagery in The Faerie Queene 53
14. 8. Shakespeare’s Experimental Comedy 72
15. 9. Toast to the Memory of Shakespeare 81
16. 10. The Tragedies of Nature and Fortune 83
17. 11. How True a Twain 95
18. 12. Recognition in The Winter’s Tale 114
19. 13. A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance 127
20. 14. Shakespeare and the Modern World 226
21. 15. Nature and Nothing 236
22. 16. Fools of Time 250
23. 17. General Editor’s Introduction to Shakespeare Series 328
24. 18. Shakespeare’s The Tempest 333
25. 19. Il Cortegiano 346
26. 20. The Myth of Deliverance 361
27. 21. Something Rich and Strange: Shakespeare’s Approach to Romance 425
28. 22. The Stage Is All the World 440
29. 23. Northrop Frye on Shakespeare 455
30. 24. Speech on Acceptance of the Governor General’s Award for Northrop Frye on Shakespeare 623
31. 25. Natural and Revealed Communities 625
32. 26. Foreword to Unfolded Tales 642
33. Notes 647
34. Emendations 765
35. Index 767