Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

By Cesar Lombardi Barber

Book Overview

" 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691013047
• ISBN13: 9780691013046
• Release Date: July 1972
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"