{"product_id":"9780679443636","title":"Comedies: Volume 1 (Everyman's Library).","description":"\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\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014936346864,"sku":"9780679443636","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679443636_p0.jpg?v=1763607888","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679443636","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}