{"product_id":"shakespeares-festive-comedy-9780691149523","title":"Shakespeares Festive Comedy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, this book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis between everyday and holiday comes to life in the comedies' combination of seriousness and levity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 1961 George Jean Nathan Award for Drama Criticism \"Well-considered, subtly thought-out commentaries that move easily between structural analysis of the larger actions and sensitive dissection of local textures ... a first-rate work of impressive imagination.\"--Modern Philology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword 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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403781513559,"sku":"9780691149523","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeares-festive-comedy-9780691149523","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}