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Acknowledgments Introduction One Crowning the End: TheAggrandizement of Closure in the Reading of ShakespeareOs Comedies Two OAwild of nothing, save of jogO: The Comic Pleasures of The Merchant of VeniceThree OThe Career of...HumorO: ComedyOs Triumph in Much Ado about NothingFour Performative Comedy in As You Like It Five Speaking Masterly: ComicTone and Comic Preparation in Twelfth Night Six Comic Vitality and theCost of Fantasy in Measure for Measure Notes Works Cited Index