{"title":"Shakespeare's Comedies","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"comedies-volume-1-book-william-shakespeare-9780679443636","title":"Comedies, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShakespeare forged his tremendous art in the crucible of his comic imagination, which throughout his life enveloped and contained his tragic one. His early comedies--with their baroque poetic exuberance, intense theatricality, explosive bursts of humor, and superbly concrete realizations of the dialects of love--capture as in a chrysalis all that he was to become. They provide a complete inventory of the mind of our greatest writer in the middle of his golden youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains \u003ci\u003eThe Comedy of Errors\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Two Gentlemen of Verona\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLove's Labor's Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, and it's companion piece, \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e, which Tony Tanner describes in his introduction as a tragedy by less than one minute. The texts, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented with textual notes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare's oeuvre. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49577997926673,"sku":"GOR002917756","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679443630.jpg?v=1751168055"},{"product_id":"comedies-volume-2-book-william-shakespeare-9780679447207","title":"Comedies, Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eShakespeare's later comedies were written at the astonishing pace of about two plays a year. In them, he moves beyond the farce of his earlier comedies to richer and more varied dramas. These range from the famous problem plays, which blend humor with tragedy, to the idyllic romances set in such timeless locales as the Forest of Arden. They contain some of his wittiest and most memorable characters, from cross-dressing heroines, bantering lovers, and wisecracking fools to the villainous but sympathetic Shylock and the boisterous and bawdy Falstaff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Merry Wives of Windsor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMuch Ado About Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwelfth Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll's Well That Ends Well\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e. The authoritatively edited text of the plays is supplemented with footnotes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tony Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare's work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50360681726225,"sku":"CIN0679447202G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51461017862417,"sku":"CIN0679447202VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679447202.jpg?v=1751136695"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/collections\/shakespeare-s-comedies-buchreihe.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}