Preface

The neglect of Shakespearian comedy

His comic genius

The general characteristics distinguishing it from that of other comic writers

The happy comedies: their origin and special quality

The two basic plays, A Comedy of Errors and Two Gentlemen of Verona, set the pattern

Love's Labour's Lost: The story of a conversion

The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merchant of Venice in 1937

Much Ado about Nothing

As You Like It

Twelfth Night

Postscript 1961: variations on the theme of A Midsummer Night's Dream

Index.