Author: Barber, C. L. (Cesar Lombardi)
Title: Shakespeare's Festive Comedy : A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1972). Reprint. orig.wrappers. 21x14cm, x,266 pp. PAPERBACK. One word pencil-underlined on first page.. Rubbed. Some page-edge spotting. Good. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Saturnalian Pattern; Holiday Custom & Entertainment; Misrule as Comedy: Comedy as Misrule; Prototypes of Festive Comedy in a Pageant Entertainment: Summer's Last Will & Testament; The Folly of Wit & Masquerade in 'Love's Labour's Lost'; May Games & Metamorphoses on a Midsummer Night; The Merchants & the Jew of Venice: Wealth's Communion & an Intruder; Rule & Misrule in Henry IV; The Alliance of Seriousness & Levity in 'As You Like It'; Testing Courtesy & Humanity in 'Twelfth Night'.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Shakespeare, Drama, Comedy, Theatre Theater, Social History, Literature, England,