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Shakespeare's Festive Comedy
2011,2012
Overview
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.
\"I have been led into an exploration of the way the social form of Elizabethan holidays contributed to the dramatic form of festive comedy. To relate this drama to holiday has proved to be the most effective way to describe its character. And this historical interplay between social and artistic form has an interest of its own: we can see here, with more clarity of outline and detail than is usually possible, how art develops underlying configurations in the social life of a culture.\"--C. L. Barber, in the Introduction
This new edition includes a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt, who discusses Barber's influence on later scholars and the recent critical disagreements that Barber has inspired, showing thatShakespeare's Festive Comedyis as vital today as when it was originally published.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Subject
/ Allusion
/ Comedies
/ Conceit
/ Costard
/ Courtesy
/ Decorum
/ Dymoke
/ Egeus
/ England
/ England -- Social life and customs -- 16th century
/ English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
/ Epilogue
/ Farce
/ Feste
/ Fiction
/ Hermia
/ History
/ Humility
/ Humour
/ Imagery
/ Irony
/ Jester
/ Joke
/ Laughter
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
/ Literary form -- History -- 16th century
/ Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
/ Malvolio
/ Manners and customs in literature
/ Mercutio
/ Plautus
/ Poetry
/ Prose
/ Puritans
/ Retinue
/ Ridicule
/ Rosaline
/ Satire
/ Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Comedies
/ Shylock
/ Tosspot
/ Whitsun
/ Writing
ISBN
0691149526, 9780691149523, 1400839858, 9781400839858
