Table of Contents

Note on Texts The Genres in Theory The Genres Staged Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies History Tragedy Epilogue Notes Further Reading Index

About the Author

Lawrence Danson is Professor of English at Princeton University and the author of Max Beerbohm and the Act of Writing and Wilde's Intentions.

Reviews

`Danson presents an interesting, useful, and often entertaining, survey of the ways in which thinking about genres had dominated the interpretation of the plays. In a book that is easily accessible to the layman, he forces us to reconsider the meaning of the traditional categories.' The Virginia Quarterly Review englightening arguments with distinguished predecessors ... gives a brief and witty summary of modern genre theory ... vivid sense of Shakespeare's plays ... scholarly sense and theatrical sensibility. Tom Deveson, Around the Globe, Jan 01.