Shakespeare's festive world : Elizabethan seasonal entertainment and the professional stage, François Laroque ; translated by Janet Lloyd

Resource Information

The instance Shakespeare's festive world : Elizabethan seasonal entertainment and the professional stage, François Laroque ; translated by Janet Lloyd represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.

Image

http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/9780521457866-M.jpg?default=false

Label

Shakespeare's festive world : Elizabethan seasonal entertainment and the professional stage, François Laroque ; translated by Janet Lloyd

Title remainder

Elizabethan seasonal entertainment and the professional stage

Statement of responsibility

François Laroque ; translated by Janet Lloyd

Instantiates

• Shakespeare's festive world : Elizabethan seasonal entertainment and the professional stage

Publication

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991

Note

• Rev. and enlarged English ed. of: Shakespeare et la fête
• Translated from the French

Bibliography note

Includes bibliography and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• List of illustrations
• Foreword/
• Keith Thomas
• Preface
• Introduction: Festivity during the Elizabethan age.
• p. 3
• 1.
• Festivity and popular beliefs in the Elizabethan age.
• p. 16
• 2.
• Festivity and society in Shakespeare's time.
• p. 32
• 3.
• calendar.
• p. 74
• 4.
• cycle of calendary festivals.
• p. 93
• 5.
• non-calendary festivals.
• p. 155
• Introduction: Some anthropological and historical perspectives on literary analysis.
• p. 179
• 6.
• Festivity and dramatic structure: methodological problems.
• p. 184
• 7.
• Festivity and time in Shakespeare's plays.
• p. 201
• 8.
• Festivity and society in Shakespeare's plays.
• p. 244
• 9.
• Festivity and its images in Shakespeare's plays.
• p. 264
• 10.
• Othello and the festive traditions.
• p. 282
• Conclusion.
• p. 303
• Appendix 1.
• comparative calendar of pagan and Christian festivals and traditions.
• p. 306
• Appendix 2.
• calendar of the principal festivals and feast days in Elizabethan England.
• p. 308
• Appendix 3.
• popular, agricultural and legal calendars.
• p. 309
• Notes.
• p. 310
• Bibliography.
• p. 390
• Index.
• p. 413

Control code

b70010489528

Dimensions

25 cm.

Extent

xvi, 423 p.

Isbn

9780521457866

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Other physical details

ill.

Record ID

b1895073