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    A MARXIST STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES

    A MARXIST STUDY
    OF SHAKESPEARE'S
    COMEDIES
    Elliot Krieger
    © Elliot Krieger 1979
    Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1979 978-0-333-26463-8
    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be
    reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means,
    without permission

    First published 1979 by


    THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD
    London and Basingstoke
    Associated companies in Delhi
    Dublin Hong Kong Johannesburg Lagos
    Melbourne New York Singapore Tokyo

    British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

    Krieger, Elliot
    A Marxist study of Shakespeare's comedies
    1. Shakespeare, William - Comedies
    I. Title
    822.3'3 PR2981
    ISBN 978-349-04656-0 ISBN 978-349-04654-6 (eBook)
    DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-04654-6

    This book is sold subject


    to the standard conditions
    of the Net Book Agreement
    For Marge
    Property was thus appalled,
    That the self was not the same;
    Single nature's double name
    Neither two nor one was called.
    SHAKESPEARE,
    ("The Phoenix and Turtle", 37- 40)
    Contents
    Acknowledgements IX

    1 INTRODUCTION I

    2 THE MERCHANT OF VENICE 8


    "A Mutual Stand" Belmont 8
    "I Give Them with This Ring" Property 16
    "And from Your Love I Have a Warranty" Thriving 23
    "Above This Sceptred Sway" The Trial 28
    Irony 34

    3 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM 37


    "Such Separation as May Well be Said" The Athenian
    Lovers 37
    "I Will Overbear Your Will" Theseus 47
    "To Take What They Mistake" Craftsmen and Fairies 51
    Harmony 65

    4 AS YOU LIKE IT 70
    "Your Grace, That Can Translate" 70
    "The Lineaments of Nature" 87

    5 TWELFTH NIGHT 97
    "The Morality of Indulgence" 97
    "One Self King" The Aristocrats 101
    "To His Image ... Did I Devotion" The Ideal
    Servants 105
    "Means for This Uncivil Rule" The Servants 114
    "To Be Count Malvolio" 121
    "All Is Fortune" Ideology 125

    vii
    Vlll Contents

    6 HENRY IV, PART ONE I3I


    "If I Do Grow Great, I'll Grow Less" Falstaff I 3I
    "To Demand the Time ofDay" Prince Hal I38
    "Revolted Tapsters, and Ostlers Trade-fall'n" I46
    "My State ... Show'd Like a Feast" Hotspur and
    Henry I56

    Notes I7I

    Index 178
    Acknowledgements
    All Shakespeare quotations are from The Riverside Shakespeare,
    textual editer G. Blakemore Evans (Boston, Houghton Mifflin
    Co., 1974).
    An early version of Chapter I appeared in The Minnesota
    Review, (ns7, 1976); an early version of Chapter 5 appeared in
    Zeitschrifl fiir Anglistik und Amerikanistik (Leipzig, 25:4, 1977).
    Several friends read and commented on parts of the manuscript.
    I especially wish to thank Dick Fly, Irving Massey, Barry Phillips,
    and Bill Saunders for their helpful criticism.
    My friend and colleague Max Bluestone read the entire
    manuscript with extraordinary care and attention. Without his
    criticism, the manuscript could not have become this book.
    I do not know how to thank my wife, Marge Rooney, except to
    say that without her this book would not have been possible or
    worth while.

    IX

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