LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFATORY NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PROLOGUE:SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND-AN OVERVIEW
PART ONE:CONTEXTS OF COMEDY
1 Laughter and elizabethan society
cultural distance and the study of comedy
‘replete with mirthful laughter':everyday laughter
‘my lord of misrule':festival ,carnival and inversionary laughter
‘rough music’:the laughter of ridicule
2 fools,clowns and jesters
jester and fool
‘invest me in my motley’:stage clowns and fool roles
‘no more than is set down for them’:improvisation,jigs and drolls
3 an audience for comedy
stage and audience
the audience in the theatre
audience on stage
women in the elizabethan theatre audience
‘A christmas gambol or a tumbling trick?’
4 twentieth-century readings of comedy
‘recognizing the ridiculous’:neo-classical approaches
‘turbulenta prima,tranquilla ultima’:generic approaches
‘the triumph of life’:rituals of the green word
recent approaches
PART TWO：CRITICAL ANALYSIS
5 shakespeare's early comedies
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6 a midsummer night's dream
7 much ado about nothing
8 as you like it
9 twelth night
PART THREE:REFERENCE SECTION
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