She also decided she would try to instill her novel "with the kind of warmth of a Shakespearean comedy."

The director has, in fact, turned a Shakespearean comedy into a problem play.

And here is one Shakespearean comedy that, itself, needs an interpretive lift.

What the director has done instead is devote full attention to the other elements of Shakespearean comedy in the play.

It has a lot of Shakespearean comedy, as well as humor relative to the modern day.

The play is an adaptation in the Buryat language of the Shakespearean comedy.

Phallic swords have long been used in Shakespearean comedy, but have they ever before actually had testicles?

That always struck me as exactly what Shakespearean comedies are.

Their scene with the Porter is classic Shakespearean "low" comedy.

Think of it as a modern-day variant on a Shakespearean comedy, only without the verbal felicity or dramatic structure.