Shakespeare's Festive World
Subtitle: Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage (European Studies in English Literature)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 24, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780521457866
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Theater - History & Criticism; Holidays; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama; Performing Arts; English; Plays; Holidays (non religious); Drama-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism; Social Science-Holidays (non religious); England; 16th century; Festivals; History; Theater
First sentence: The theme of festivity is clearly not a topos or subject for which there already exist an established critical tradition.