This book is concerned with language, genre, drama, and literary and historical narrative and examines the comedy of Shakespeare in the context of comedies from Italy, Spain, and France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Autorentext
JONATHAN HART Director of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at University of Alberta, Canada. He has published books of poetry, literary criticism and theory, and history. His most recent book is Empires and Colonies and an edited collection, City of the End of Things.

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Introduction England and Empire Marlowe's Apostrophe Greene's Romance Renaissance Comedy Narrative, Theory, Drama Story, Play, History Dramatic History Shakespeare's Romance