Shakespeare's Festive Comedy :: a Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom /

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 inwar...

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Main Author: Barber, C. L. (Cesar Lombardi) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
Edition:New ed. /
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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 comedies' combination of seriousness and levity.
Item Description:First printing 1959.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 301 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400839858
1400839858

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