Religion and Revelry in Shakespeare's Festive World

Author:   Phebe Jensen (Utah State University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781107578708


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   17 December 2015
Format:   Paperback
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Religion and Revelry in Shakespeare's Festive World examines the relationship between traditional festive pastimes - such as Midsummer pageants and morris dancing - and Shakespeare's plays. Beginning with C. L. Barber's Shakespeare's Festive Comedy, work on this topic has stressed the political and social meanings of early modern festivity; in contrast, this study seeks to restore a sense of the devotional issues surrounding festivity to our understanding of early modern cultural representations. After establishing the continued religious controversies surrounding festivity expressed in a range of early modern literature, the book argues that Shakespeare is a festive traditionalist who not only acknowledges the relationship between traditional pastimes, stage plays, and religious controversy, but who also aligns his own work with festive energies identified with the old religion. Religion and Revelry therefore intervenes in recent controversies over the role of religion in Shakespeare's theater, as well as the particular place of Catholicism in Shakespeare's work and world.

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Author:   Phebe Jensen (Utah State University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9781107578708


ISBN 10:   1107578701
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   17 December 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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'… a rich wide-ranging account that enables further argument, rather than closing it off with easy answers.' The Times Literary Supplement


'a rich wide-ranging account that enables further argument, rather than closing it off with easy answers.' The Times Literary Supplement


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Phebe Jensen is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Utah State University.

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