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Leo Salingar.
Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy.

Publisher: Cambridge U.P., 1979 reprint (previously issued 1974).
ISBN 0521291135.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: University Press, Cambridge.
Size: 137×215×23mm.
Page count: x,356pp.
Main language: English; quotations from other languages mostly given without translation.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some general wear on its covers, back cover is rather yellowed with age and has a strong-ish crease to its top outside corner; the spine is faded but not creased from reading; the text appears to be free of marking.


This item £6.00
P&P inc.
within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £22.99]
Weight without packaging: 459g. 

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No medieval emphasis.

Contents: The unfaithful mirror; Medieval stage romances; ‘Errors’ & deceit in classical comedy; Fortune in classical comedy; Shakespeare & Italian comedy; An Elizabethan playwright.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 16pp
Indexes: Plays; General.

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