Shakespeare's Comic Rites

Klappentext Professor Berry combines social history! anthropology and literary criticism to Shakespeare's romantic comedies. Zusammenfassung This 1984 book is an original attempt to combine social history and anthropology with literary criticism. Professor Berry relates Shakespeare's romantic comedies to Elizabethan social customs and to rites of initiation! courtship and marriage to demonstrate the overall picture of the Elizabethan times. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction: comic rites; 2. Separation; 3. Natural transitions; 4. Artificial transitions; 5. Natural philosophers; 6. Time and place; 7. Incorporations; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Berry, Berry Edward, Berry Edward
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521134859
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13485-9
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean