TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salingar, Leo
TI  - Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy
U1  - 822.33	 
PY  - 1974///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Comedies
KW  - Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Sources
KW  - Comedy -- History and criticism
N1  - 1. The unfaithful mirror --
Comedy as celebration --
Character and plot --
2. Medieval stage romances --
Early Elizabethan romances --
Medieval stage heroines --
Egeon and Apollonius --
Survivals of medieval staging --
3. 'Errors' and deceit in classical comedy --
The trickster in classical comedy --
The trickster, continued --
4. Fortune in classical comedy --
The wheel of fortune --
Fortune as trickster --
5. Shakespeare and Italian comedy --
Three Italian comedies --
Double plots in Shakespeare --
6. An Elizabethan playwright --
THe player in the play --
Marriages and magistrates
N2  - This book relates Shakespeare's comedies to a broad European background. At the beginning and again at the end of his career, Shakespeare was attracted by a tradition of stage romances which can be traced back to Chaucer's time
ER  -