Introduction : comedy as idea and practice
Farce : The comedy of errors, The taming of the shrew, The merry wives of Windsor
Courtly lovers and the real world : Two gentlemen of Verona, A midsummer night's dream, The merchant of Venice
Comedy and language : Love's labour's lost
Romantic comedy : Much ado about nothing, As you like it, Twelfth night
Problematic plots and endings : clowning and comedy post-Hamlet : Measure for measure, All's well that ends well, The winter's tale, Cymbeline, The tempest
The afterlives of Shakespeare's comedies.
The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies by Penny Gay. ISBN 9780521672696. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.