Offhand I'd recommend Leo Salingar, Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy (Cambridge UP, 1974); Madeleine Doran, Endeavors of Art (U of Wisconsin P, 1954); Ruth Nevo, Comic Transformations in Shakespeare (Methuen, 1980); Colburn Gum, The Aristophanic Comedies of Ben Jonson (Mouton, 1969). Kevin Donovan <[log in to unmask]> English Department, Middle Tennessee State University P.O. Box 401, Murfreesboro, TN 37132