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The Tempest
The Merchant of Venice
Lettice and Lovage
Plays (Hamlet / King Henry IV. Part 1 / King Lear / Much Ado About Nothing / Tempest)
Restoration comedy, 1660-1720
An Art Edition of Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Winter's Tale
Elizabethan and Jacobean comedy
Works (Antony and Cleopatra / As You Like It / Hamlet / Julius Caesar / King Henry IV. Part 1 / King Henry V / King Lear / King Richard II / King Richard III / Macbeth / Measure for Measure / Merchant of Venice / Midsummer Night's Dream / Much Ado About Nothing / Othello / Romeo and Juliet / Sonnets / Taming of the Shrew / Tempest / Twelfth Night / Winter's Tale)
Elizabethan comic character conventions as revealed in the comedies of George Chapman
Epicoene
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare: the comedies
Major Plays and the Sonnets (Antony and Cleopatra / As You Like It / Coriolanus / Hamlet / Julius Caesar / King Henry IV. Part 1 / King Henry IV. Part 2 / King Henry V / King Lear / King Richard II / King Richard III / Love's Labour's Lost / Macbeth / Measure for Measure / Merchant of Venice / Midsummer Night's Dream / Much Ado About Nothing / Othello / Romeo and Juliet / Sonnets / Tempest / Troilus and Cressida / Twelfth Night / Winter's Tale)
The conscious lovers
The Comedies. Volume II (All's Well That Ends Well / As You Like It / Measure for Measure / Merchant of Venice / Merry Wives of Windsor / Much Ado About Nothing / Twelfth Night)
Shakespeare, Jonson, Molière, the comic contract
Broadview Anthology of British Literature -- Concise Second Edition, Volume A
From fringe to flying circus
A Woman of No Importance
The Alchemist, 1612
Plays (43)
Shakespeare and Classical Comedy
English comedy
The school for scandal, 1780
The Shakspearean Reader
The Complete Works of Shakespeare [38 plays, 4 poems, sonnets]
All's Well That Ends Well
Three plays
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