Shakespeare's Festive Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom - Couverture souple

Barber, Cesar Lombardi

 
9780691149523: Shakespeare's Festive Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom
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ISBN 10 : 0691149526 ISBN 13 : 9780691149523
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691149526
ISBN 13 
9780691149523
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780691013046: SHAKESPEARE'S FESTIVE COMEDY.: A study of dramatic form and its relation to social custom

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0691013047 ISBN 13 :  9780691013046
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1972
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