Twelfth Night and Shakespearian Comedy

Professor Leech examines here the changing nature of Shakespeare''s comic art, from its early forms in such plays as The Comedy of Errors and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, where delight predominates, to later developments in Measure for Measure and The Winter''s Tale, where elements of the playwright''s tragic vision intrude to prevent the effect from being wholly comic. He illuminates the nature o...