Shakespeare's Festive Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social CustomPrinceton University Press, 2012 - 301 Seiten 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. |
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INTRODUCTION THE SATURNALIAN PATTERN | 1 |
HOLIDAY CUSTOM AND ENTERTAINMENT | 16 |
MISRULE AS COMEDY COMEDY AS MISRULE | 39 |
PROTOTYPES OF FESTIVE COMEDY IN A PAGEANT ENTERTAINMENT SUMMERS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT | 64 |
THE FOLLY OF WIT AND MASQUERADE IN LOVES LABOURS LOST | 98 |
MAY GAMES AND METAMORPHOSES ON A MIDSUMMER NIGHT | 135 |
THE MERCHANTS AND THE JEW OF VENICE WEALTHS COMMUNION AND AN INTRUDER | 185 |
RULE AND MISRULE IN HENRY IV | 219 |
THE ALLIANCE OF SERIOUSNESS AND LEVITY IN AS YOU LIKE IT | 252 |
TESTING COURTESY AND HUMANITY IN TWELFTH NIGHT | 272 |
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