Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction One Crowning the EndAggrandizement of Closure in the Reading of ShakespeareOs Comedies Two oA wild of nothing, save of jogO: The Comic Pleasures of The Merchant of Venice Three oThe Career of...HumorO: ComedyOs Triumph in Much Ado about Nothing Four Performative Comedy in As You Like It Five Speaking Masterly: Comic Tone and Comic Preparation in Twelfth Night Six Comic Vitality and the Cost of Fantasy in Measure for Measure Notes Works Cited Index
