{"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":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679443630.jpg?v=1751168055","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/comedies-volume-1-book-william-shakespeare-9780679443636","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}