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Index
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface
One: Introduction: The Saturnalian Pattern
Through Release to Clarification
Shakespeare’s Route to Festive Comedy
Two: Holiday Custom and Entertainment
The May Game
The Lord of Misrule
Aristocratic Entertainments
Three: Misrule as Comedy; Comedy as Misrule
License and Lese Majesty in Lincolnshire
The May Game of Martin Marprelate
Four: Prototypes of Festive Comedy in a Pageant Entertainment: Summer’s Last Will and Testament
“What can be made of Summer’s last will and testament?”
Presenting the Mirth of the Occasion
Praise of Folly: Bacchus and Falstaff
Festive Abuse
“Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year”
Five: The Folly of Wit and Masquerade in Love’s Labour’s Lost
“lose our oaths to find ourselves”
“sport by sport o’erthrown”
“a great feast of languages”
Wit
Putting Witty Folly in Its Place
“When . . . Then . . .”—The Seasonal Songs
Six: May Games and Metamorphoses on a Midsummer Night
The Fond Pageant
Bringing in Summer to the Bridal
Magic as Imagination: The Ironic Wit
Moonlight and Moonshine: The Ironic Burlesque
The Sense of Reality
Seven: The Merchants and the Jew of Venice: Wealth’s Communion and an Intruder
Making Distinctions about the Use of Riches
Transcending Reckoning at Belmont
Comical/Menacing Mechanism in Shylock
The Community Setting Aside Its Machinery
Sharing in the Grace of Life
Eight: Rule and Misrule in Henry IV
Mingling Kings and Clowns
Getting Rid of Bad Luck by Comedy
The Trial of Carnival in Part Two
Nine: The Alliance of Seriousness and Levity in as You Like it
The Liberty of Arden
Counterstatements
“all nature in love mortal in folly”
Ten: Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night
“A most extracting frenzy”
“You are betroth’d both to a maid and man”
Liberty Testing Courtesy
Outside the Garden Gate
Index
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