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Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy - The Ritual Foundations of Genre (Paperback)
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Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy - The Ritual Foundations of Genre (Paperback)
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In "Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy" Naomi Conn Liebler offers a
trenchant and challenging re-reading of the genre of Shakespearean
tragedy. Extending the category of the "festive" to apply to
tragedy as well as comedy, Liebler describes Shakespearean tragedy
as a celebration of communal survival, and a demonstration of what
happens when a community violates the ritual structures that define
and preserve it.
Employing the works of drama theorists, such as Aristotle, Brecht
and Girard, as well as cultural anthropologists, such as Clifford
Geertz, Victor Turner and Mary Douglas, Liebler focuses upon
tragedy as the formal representation of real social action and
conflict. She views the community as a whole--not just the
protagonist--as the real subject of the drama. The festive tragedy
is concerned with ritual practice whose function is, as "King
Lear's" Tom O'Bedlam put it, "to prevent the fiend and to kill
vermin"--that is, to protect and purge. The violation of this
ritual practice jeopardizes the survival of the entire community.
Through a detailed analysis of a number of Shakespeare's great
tragic works, "Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy" provides a series of
fresh connections between the rituals of festivity and tragedy.
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