{"product_id":"shakespeares-festive-world-elizabethan-seasonal-entertainment-and-the-professional-stage-paperback-9780521457866","title":"Shakespeare's Festive World; Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage (Paperback) 9780521457866","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShakespeare's Festive World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eElizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book offers an exciting new perspective on Shakespeare's relation to popular culture.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrangois Laroque (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521457866, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 9 September 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e440 pages, 16 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.1 x 3 cm, 0.705 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'One of those rare book which teaches us to think like a person of a different culture…A lucid and imaginative book which combines an impressive breadth of knowledge with sensitivity to detail.' Cashiers Elisabethains\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book offers an exciting new perspective on Shakespeare's relation to popular culture. Shakespeare's plays draw extensively on the events and traditions of Elizabethan festivals and holidays, mingling popular and aristocratic or royal forms of entertainment in ways that combine or clash to produce new meaning, offering surprises which anticipate the Stuart masque. This process evolved from the early, romantic comedies into the late plays which recover the celebrations and patterns of renewal initiated in the 'green world': the values of festivity are inverted in the comedy of misrule, and finally perverted in the darker forms of the history plays and tragedies. Francois Laroque reconstructs the principal events, customs and games of the Elizabethan festive tradition, and reconsiders Shakespeare's technique in this context.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Foreword Sir Keith Thomas\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Introduction: Festivity During the Elizabethan Age: 1. Festivity and popular beliefs in the Elizabethan age\u003cbr\u003e 2.  Festivity and society in Shakespeare's time\u003cbr\u003e 3. The calendar\u003cbr\u003e 4. The cycle of calendary festivals\u003cbr\u003e 5. The non-calendary festivals\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Introduction: Some Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on Literary Analysis: 6. Festivity and dramatic structure: methodological problems\u003cbr\u003e 7. Festivity and time in Shakespeare's plays\u003cbr\u003e 8. Festivity and society in Shakespeare's plays\u003cbr\u003e 9. Festivity and its images in Shakespeare's plays\u003cbr\u003e 10. Othello and the festive traditions\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Appendix I: Calendars\u003cbr\u003e Appendix II: Iconography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Shakespeare%20studies%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDSGS%5D%22\"\u003eDSGS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003750240536,"sku":"9780521457866","price":41.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521457866_47e7bf4a-e72b-4ed6-89c2-5638586b9781.gif?v=1691382360","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/shakespeares-festive-world-elizabethan-seasonal-entertainment-and-the-professional-stage-paperback-9780521457866","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}