Links Database: Keyword comedy

• "This falles out better, then I could deuise": Play-Bound Playwrights and the Nature of Shakespearean Comedy

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/SURROGAT%20PLAYWRIT.txt

  Steele, Kenneth B. "'This falles out better, then I could deuise': Play-Bound Playwrights and the Nature of Shakespearean Comedy." University of Toronto (1990). Steele looks at the development of the figure in each of Shakespeare's plays who either frames the entire play as an explicit artifact, directs and produces a contained performance, stages a theatrical practical joke, or orchestrates the events of the entire playworld toward a comic denouement and how this figure culminates in A Midsummer Night's Dream's omnipotent dramaturge Oberon:

  keywords: comedy, dream, metadrama, MND, midsummer, night's, playwrights, oberon

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Lansdowne's Jew of Venice

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=jew_of_venice&PagePosition=1

  The Furness Collection houses the work The Jew of Venice. A comedy. As it is acted at the theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's servants. London: Printed for Ber. Lintott, 1701. (Merchant of Venice):

  keywords: comedy, london, jew, merchant, mv, theater, venice

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12