Shakespeare's Festive World
Subtitle: Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage (European Studies in English Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 27, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780521375498
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Holidays (non religious); Folklore; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Manners and customs; Shakespeare, William; Sociology; English
First sentence: The theme of festivity is clearly not a topos or subject for which there already exist an established critical tradition.