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Shakespeare's Festive Comedy Cesar Lombardi Barber

Shakespeare's Festive Comedy By Cesar Lombardi Barber

Shakespeare's Festive Comedy by Cesar Lombardi Barber

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Explores the way the social form of Elizabethan holidays contributed to the dramatic form of festive comedy.

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Shakespeare's Festive Comedy by Cesar Lombardi Barber

'Shakespeare's Festive Comedy' is the best book on the subject that I know. The book is well and clearly written, and I should think would fascinate the general readers. I think it is indispensable for students of Shakespeare's comedy.'-----Francis Fergusson

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Shakespeare's Festive Comedy is the best book on the subject that I know. The book is well and clearly written, and I should think would fascinate the general readers. I think it is indispensable for students of Shakespeare's comedy.-Francis Fergusson
C. L. Barber is the most compelling of the anthropological critics and his book, Shakespeare's Festive Comedy, is to my mind far and away the most illuminating yet to appear on its subject. He is compelling for many reasons-a mind both intricate and deft, a sensitivity quick to the accommodation of esthetic form to the intricacies of psychological function, a humanity benignly tolerant and inclusive. . . . The especial merit of Barber's criticism lies in its sensitive exploration of the individual working out of the release-clarification formula in five separate plays. Each, he discovers, 'tends to focus on a particular kind of folly that is released along with love-witty masquerade in Love's Labour's Lost, delusive fantasy in A Midsummer Night's Dream, romance in As You Like It, and in The Merchant of Venice, prodigality balanced against usuary.' Twelfth Night, to complete the list, focuses on misrule and its complementary folly of time-serving.-Arthur M. Eastman, in A Short History of Shakespearean Criticism

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CIN0691013047A
9780691013046
0691013047
Shakespeare's Festive Comedy by Cesar Lombardi Barber
Cesar Lombardi Barber
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Princeton University Press
19720721
266
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