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 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 hav…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4008-3985-8
- EAN: 9781400839858
- Produktnummer: 13948816
- Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
C. L. Barber was a fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library and a world-renowned Shakespeare scholar. His books include The Whole Journey: Shakespeare's Power of Development and Creating Elizabethan Tragedy: The Theater of Marlowe and Kyd.
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