E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten
Barber Shakespeare's Festive Comedy
With a New foreword by Stephen Greenblatt
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3985-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom
E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3985-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
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Foreword stephen greenblatt xi
Preface xvii
Chapter One: Introduction: The Saturnalian Pattern 1
Through Release to Clarification 5
Shakespeare's Route to Festive Comedy 10
Chapter Two: holiday custom and entertainment 16
The May Game 19
The Lord of Misrule 25
Aristocratic Entertainments 32
Chapter Three: Misrule as Comedy; Comedy as Misrule 39
License and Lese Majesty in Lincolnshire 40
The May Game of Martin Marprelate 56
Chapter Four: Prototypes of Festive Comedy in a Pageant Entertainment: Summer's Last Will and Testament 64
"What can be made of Summer's last will and testament?" 64
Presenting the Mirth of the Occasion 68
Praise of Folly: Bacchus and Falstaff 75
Festive Abuse 82
"Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year" 90
Chapter Five: The Folly of Wit and Masquerade in Love's Labour's Lost 98
"lose our oaths to find ourselves" 100
"sport by sport o'erthrown" 105
"a great feast of languages" 107
Wit 112
Putting Witty Folly in Its Place 116
"When. Then."--The Seasonal Songs 128
Chapter Six: May Games and Metamorphoses on a Midsummer Night 135
The Fond Pageant 141
Bringing in Summer to the Bridal 149
Magic as Imagination: The Ironic Wit 159
Moonlight and Moonshine: The Ironic Burlesque 168
The Sense of Reality 179
Chapter Seven: The Merchants and the Jew of Venice: Wealth's Communion and an Intruder 185
Making Distinctions about the Use of Riches 188
Transcending Reckoning at Belmont 197
Comical/Menacing Mechanism in Shylock 201
The Community Setting Aside Its Machinery 209
Sharing in the Grace of Life 212
Chapter Eight: Rule and Misrule in henry iv 219
Mingling Kings and Clowns 223
Getting Rid of Bad Luck by Comedy 234
The Trial of Carnival in Part Two 243
Chapter Nine: The Alliance of Seriousness and Levity in A You Like It 252
The Liberty of Arden 254
Counterstatements 257
"all nature in love mortal in folly" 260
Chapter Ten: Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night 272
"A most extracting frenzy" 275
"You are betroth'd both to a maid and man" 277
Liberty Testing Courtesy 281
Outside the Garden Gate 292
Index 297
