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The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

1600 ★ 4.0

Elizabethan comic character conventions as revealed in the comedies of George Chapman

Paul Vernon Kreider

1975

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

1600 ★ 4.3

Shakespeare: the comedies

Kenneth Muir

1965

Discussions of Shakespeare's problem comedies

Robert Ornstein

1961

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)

William Shakespeare

1996

Shakespeare, Jonson, Molière, the comic contract

Nicholas Grene

1980

Antic fables

A. P. Riemer

1980

Shakespeare's comedies

Robert Ornstein

1986

Shakespearian and other essays. --

Smith, James

1974

Her husband's wife

Thomas, A. E.

1914

Shakespeare and the traditions of comedy

Leo Salingar

1976

Shakespearian comedy and other studies

George Stuart Gordon

1944

Shakespeare's Comedies

Gary F. Waller

1991

Shakespearean Criticism

Michelle Lee

2005

Dear Brutus

J. M. Barrie

1922 ★ 3.8

The metamorphoses of Shakespearean comedy

William C. Carroll

1985

Funny skits and sketches

Terry Halligan

1987

The boy who fell into a book

Alan Ayckbourn

2000

Great Comedies and Tragedies (As You Like It / Hamlet / King Lear / Macbeth / Midsummer Night's Dream / Much Ado About Nothing / Othello / Romeo and Juliet / Twelfth Night)

William Shakespeare

2005

The world must be peopled

Michael D. Friedman

2002

Shakespeare, the comedies

Ronald P. Draper

2000

Shakespeare's Sweet Thunder

Michael J. Collins

1997

Who was that lady I saw you with?

Norman Krasna

1957

Pyramus and Thisbe

William-Alan Landes

1996

Shakespeare's festive comedy

C. L. Barber

2012

Biblical references in Shakespeare's comedies

Naseeb Shaheen

1993

Shakespearean criticism

Michelle Lee

2009

The world upside down

Ian Donaldson

1970

Медведь

Антон Павлович Чехов

1909

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