Four Great Comedies

Comedies as one of Shakespeares contemporaries wrote begin
in trouble and end in peace. This is certainly true of the
four masterworks selected for this collection–The Taming
of the Shrew A Midsummer Nights Dream Twelfth Night and
The Tempest–each of which represents a significant stage
in the development of the worlds greatest dramatist.
Reading these plays we sample the whole comic spectrum of
the Elizabethan world–from the satiric comes that
portrays a world of people whose unreasonable behavior is
ludicrous and in need of reform to the romantic comedy
that takes us into a dreamlike holiday world whose
inhabitants for all their folly are still endearing
characters.