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Shakespeare's festive comedy [[electronic resource] ] : a study of dramatic form and its relation to social custom / / C. L. Barber ; with a new foreword by Stephen Greenblatt



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Autore: Barber C. L (Cesar Lombardi) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Shakespeare's festive comedy [[electronic resource] ] : a study of dramatic form and its relation to social custom / / C. L. Barber ; with a new foreword by Stephen Greenblatt Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012
Edizione: With a New foreword by Stephen Greenblatt
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
Disciplina: 822.33
Soggetto topico: Literature and society - England - History - 16th century
English drama (Comedy) - History and criticism
Literary form - History - 16th century
Manners and customs in literature
Festivals in literature
Soggetto geografico: England Social life and customs 16th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: A Midsummer Night's Dream
As You Like It
Elizabethan England
Elizabethan comedy
Elizabethan festivals
Elizabethan holidays
Elizabethan society
Forest of Arden
Henry IV
Lord of Misrule
Love's Labour's Lost
May Day
May Game
Nashe
Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
Twelfth Night
clowning
comedies
comedy
drama
fantasy
farce
festive comedy
festive play
festive plays
festivity
folly
fools
holiday custom
holiday
imagination
inclusiveness
liberty
misrule
pageantry
play
plays
rituals
romance
saturnalia
saturnalian attitude
saturnalian impulse
seasonal festivals
social occasions
Altri autori: GreenblattStephen <1943->  
Persona (resp. second.): GreenblattStephen <1943-, >
Note generali: Reissue, with a new foreword.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Greenblatt, Stephen -- Preface -- One. Introduction: The Saturnalian Patter -- Two. Holiday Custom and Entertainment -- Three. Misrule as Comedy; Comedy as Misrule -- Four. Prototypes of Festive Comedy in a Pageant Entertainment: Summer's Last Will and Testament -- Five. The Folly of Wit and Masquerade in Love's Labour's Lost -- Six. May Games and Metamorphoses on a Midsummer Night -- Seven. The Merchants and the Jew of Venice: Wealth's Communion and an Intruder -- Eight. Rule and Misrule in Henry IV -- Nine. The Alliance of Seriousness and Levity in As You Like It -- Ten. Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 that Shakespeare's Festive Comedy is as vital today as when it was originally published.
Titolo autorizzato: Shakespeare's festive comedy  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-21260-9
9786613212603
1-4008-3985-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457231703321
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