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 |
Autore | Barber C. L (Cesar Lombardi) |
Edizione | [With a New foreword by Stephen Greenblatt] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (322 p.) |
Disciplina | 822.33 |
Altri autori (Persone) | GreenblattStephen <1943-> |
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 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 |
ISBN |
1-283-21260-9
9786613212603 1-4008-3985-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457231703321 |
Barber C. L (Cesar Lombardi) | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Autore | Barber C. L (Cesar Lombardi) |
Edizione | [With a New foreword by Stephen Greenblatt] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (322 p.) |
Disciplina | 822.33 |
Altri autori (Persone) | GreenblattStephen <1943-> |
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 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 |
ISBN |
1-283-21260-9
9786613212603 1-4008-3985-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781676803321 |
Barber C. L (Cesar Lombardi) | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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