{"product_id":"comedies-volume-1-introduction-by-tony-tanner-9780679443636","title":"Comedies, Volume 1: Introduction by Tony Tanner","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShakespeare forged his tremendous art in the crucible of his comic imagination, which throughout his life enveloped and contained his tragic one. His early comedies--with their baroque poetic exuberance, intense theatricality, explosive bursts of humor, and superbly concrete realizations of the dialects of love--capture as in a chrysalis all that he was to become. They provide a complete inventory of the mind of our greatest writer in the middle of his golden youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains \u003ci\u003eThe Comedy of Errors\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Two Gentlemen of Verona\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLove's Labor's Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, and it's companion piece, \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e, which Tony Tanner describes in his introduction as \"a tragedy by less than one minute.\" The texts, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented with textual notes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare's oeuvre. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679443636\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 5.36w x 1.62d","brand":"William Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43049463873717,"sku":"9780679443636","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_85106db4-4074-4b11-b046-912af8d74067.jpg?v=1689689972","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/comedies-volume-1-introduction-by-tony-tanner-9780679443636","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}