Shakespeare's festive comedy: a study of dramatic form and its relation to social custom
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1. Verfasser: Barber, Cesar L. 1913-1980 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press ©2012
Ausgabe:New ed. , with a new foreword by Stephen Greenblatt
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Beschreibung:First printing 1959
Includes bibliographical references and index
In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C.L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly interweaving anthropology, social history, and literary criticism, Barber traces the inward journey--psychological, bodily, spiritual--of the comedies: from confusion, raucous laughter, aching desire, and aggression, to harmony. Revealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, the book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis between everyday and holiday comes to life in the come
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 301 pages)
ISBN:0691149526
1400839858
9780691149523
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