Shakespeare's festive world : Elizabethan seasonal entertainment and the professional stage
François Laroque's new perspective on Shakespeare's relation to popular culture has quickly become a classic of scholarship. Available now in paperback, the book opens new possibilities for Shakespeare studies, revealing the connections between his plays and the folklore, customs, games, and celebrations of the Elizabethan festive tradition. This acclaimed study shows how Shakespeare mingled popular culture with aristocratic and royal forms of entertainment in ways that combined or clashed to produce new meaning
Print Book, English, 1991
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1991
Folklore
xvi, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780521375498, 9780521457866, 0521375495, 0521457866
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Part I: Festivity during the Elizabethan Age
Festivity and popular beliefs in the Elizabethan age
Festivity and society in Shakespeare's time
The calendar
The cycle of calendary festivals
The non-calendary festivals
Part II: Some anthropological and historical perspectives on literary analysis
Festivity and dramatic structure: methodological problems
Festivity and time in Shakespeare's plays
Festivity and society in Shakespeare's plays
Festivity and its images in Shakespeare's plays
Othello and festive traditions
Appendix 1: A comparative calendar of pagan and Christian festivals and traditions
Appendix 2: A calendar of the principal festivals and feast days in Elizabethan England
Appendix 3: The popular, agricultural and legal calendars
Translation of: Shakespeare et la fête