249 pages ; 24 cm

This collection of essays on Shakespeare's early comedies has been designed to suggest how five four-hundred-year-old plays have been and might continue to be, in the words of Jonathan Miller, "assimilated to the interests of the present" to the men and women who encounter them, as texts or performances, in the last years of the twentieth century

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: the afterlife of Shakespeare's early comedies / Michael J. Collins -- The influence of new comedy on The comedy of errors and The taming of the shrew / Robert S. Miola -- The tamings of the shrews / Alan C. Dessen -- Love's labor's lost: burn the parasols, play the Quarto! / Homer Swander -- Convents, conventions, and contraventions: Love's labor's lost and The convent of pleasure / Jeanne Addison Roberts -- "Errors" and "labors": feminism and early Shakespearean comedy / Ann Thompson -- A night of errors and the dawn of empire: male enterprise in The comedy of errors / Bruce R. Smith -- The two gentlemen of Verona on stage: protean problems and protean solutions / Carol J. Carlisle and Patty S. Derrick -- The disappearance and return of Love's labor's lost / Miriam Gilbert -- Kate, Bianca, Ruth, and Sarah: playing the woman's part in The taming of the shrew / Carol Rutter -- A new watershed? Robert Lepage's "Mudsummer" night's dream / Jay L. Halio -- Teaching Shakespeare's early comedies / Ralph Alan Cohen

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