LEADER 04544nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910819330603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21260-9 010 $a9786613212603 010 $a1-4008-3985-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400839858 035 $a(CKB)2550000000043453 035 $a(EBL)738676 035 $a(OCoLC)753678591 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000641101 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11446418 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000641101 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10622946 035 $a(PQKB)11770499 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000938117 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36960 035 $a(DE-B1597)446868 035 $a(OCoLC)979578825 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400839858 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL738676 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491749 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321260 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC738676 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000043453 100 $a20111031e20121999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aShakespeare's festive comedy $ea study of dramatic form and its relation to social custom /$fC. L. Barber ; with a new foreword by Stephen Greenblatt 205 $aWith a New foreword by Stephen Greenblatt 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (322 p.) 300 $aReissue, with a new foreword. 311 $a0-691-06043-6 311 $a0-691-14952-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tForeword /$rGreenblatt, Stephen --$tPreface --$tOne. Introduction: The Saturnalian Patter --$tTwo. Holiday Custom and Entertainment --$tThree. Misrule as Comedy; Comedy as Misrule --$tFour. Prototypes of Festive Comedy in a Pageant Entertainment: Summer's Last Will and Testament --$tFive. The Folly of Wit and Masquerade in Love's Labour's Lost --$tSix. May Games and Metamorphoses on a Midsummer Night --$tSeven. The Merchants and the Jew of Venice: Wealth's Communion and an Intruder --$tEight. Rule and Misrule in Henry IV --$tNine. The Alliance of Seriousness and Levity in As You Like It --$tTen. Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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 that Shakespeare's Festive Comedy is as vital today as when it was originally published. 606 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aEnglish drama (Comedy)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterary form$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aManners and customs in literature 606 $aFestivals in literature 607 $aEngland$xSocial life and customs$y16th century 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish drama (Comedy)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterary form$xHistory 615 0$aManners and customs in literature. 615 0$aFestivals in literature. 676 $a822.33 700 $aBarber$b C. L$g(Cesar Lombardi)$0394470 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819330603321 996 $aSHAKESPEARE'S FESTIVE COMEDY$9446539 997 $aUNINA