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 …… 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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