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"The achievement of this erudite, persuasive and compelling book makes comedy into a meaningful critical language that can be exported to other areas of Shakespeare's career, and also to comedies by other early modern writers. Scholars and teachers of Shakespeare, comedy and all forms of drama will find much of value here. * Steve Mentz, Emotions: History, Culture, Society * Like all Kent Cartwright's work, this is a deeply researched, beautifully written, and thoughtful DL as well as thought-provoking DL book. Its solid research ranges widely in areas of early modern thought and culture too often now regarded with a certain, default, impatience...Cartwright's detailed reading of the comedies recovers what is so often lost in the solemn ideological and materialist discussions to which they are often subjected: they are funny...This book calls us to rethink our reductiveness and acknowledge that we may all be enchanted, and in the enchantment of art, by which we discuss the more removed mysteries, find ourselves when no man was his own. But howsoever, strange and admirable. * Charles Moseley * Kent Cartwright's new book goes a long way in elucidating the forms of Shakespeare's comic instinct for ""enchantment"" in the classic comedies, yet offers a number of hints as to why enchantment is such serious business. The book is excellent: fully informed by wide reading in theories of comedy generally and studies of Shakespearean comedy in particular; illuminating in its concentration upon the characteristics of the comedies; and helpful in its illustrative readings of actual plays. * Moreana *"

Like all Kent Cartwright's work, this is a deeply researched, beautifully written, and thoughtful - as well as thought-provoking - book. Its solid research ranges widely in areas of early modern thought and culture too often now regarded with a certain, default, impatience...Cartwright's detailed reading of the comedies recovers what is so often lost in the solemn ideological and materialist discussions to which they are often subjected: they are funny...This book calls us to rethink our reductiveness and acknowledge that we may all be enchanted, and in the enchantment of art, by which we discuss the more removed mysteries, find ourselves when no man was his own. But howsoever, strange and admirable. * Charles Moseley *

The achievement of this erudite, persuasive and compelling book makes comedy into a meaningful critical language that can be exported to other areas of Shakespeare's career, and also to comedies by other early modern writers. Scholars and teachers of Shakespeare, comedy and all forms of drama will find much of value here. * Steve Mentz, Emotions: History, Culture, Society * Like all Kent Cartwright's work, this is a deeply researched, beautifully written, and thoughtful — as well as thought-provoking — book. Its solid research ranges widely in areas of early modern thought and culture too often now regarded with a certain, default, impatience...Cartwright's detailed reading of the comedies recovers what is so often lost in the solemn ideological and materialist discussions to which they are often subjected: they are funny...This book calls us to rethink our reductiveness and acknowledge that we may all be enchanted, and in the enchantment of art, by which we discuss the more removed mysteries, find ourselves when no man was his own. But howsoever, strange and admirable. * Charles Moseley * Kent Cartwright's new book goes a long way in elucidating the forms of Shakespeare's comic instinct for ""enchantment"" in the classic comedies, yet offers a number of hints as to why enchantment is such serious business. The book is excellent: fully informed by wide reading in theories of comedy generally and studies of Shakespearean comedy in particular; illuminating in its concentration upon the characteristics of the comedies; and helpful in its illustrative readings of actual plays. * Moreana * Kent Cartwright's thought-provoking study of this dramatic kind is thus a welcome contribution to Shakespearean scholarship. * Goran Stanivukovic, Renaissance et Réforme 46.1 *

The achievement of this erudite, persuasive and compelling book makes comedy into a meaningful critical language that can be exported to other areas of Shakespeare's career, and also to comedies by other early modern writers. Scholars and teachers of Shakespeare, comedy and all forms of drama will find much of value here. * Steve Mentz, Emotions: History, Culture, Society * Like all Kent Cartwright's work, this is a deeply researched, beautifully written, and thoughtful - as well as thought-provoking - book. Its solid research ranges widely in areas of early modern thought and culture too often now regarded with a certain, default, impatience...Cartwright's detailed reading of the comedies recovers what is so often lost in the solemn ideological and materialist discussions to which they are often subjected: they are funny...This book calls us to rethink our reductiveness and acknowledge that we may all be enchanted, and in the enchantment of art, by which we discuss the more removed mysteries, find ourselves when no man was his own. But howsoever, strange and admirable. * Charles Moseley *

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Kent Cartwright is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of English of the University of Maryland. His teaching and scholarship have focused on sixteenth-century British literature, especially drama, and on late medieval British literature. He has also written on the status of the undergraduate English major. He has edited The Comedy of Errors, for The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series (Bloomsbury, 2017). His other books include Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double: The Rhythms of Audience Response (Penn State University Press, 1991). He is editor of A Companion to Tudor Literature (Blackwell, 2010) and the author of numerous articles on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. He has served as president of the Association of Departments of English (USA) and as a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America.

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