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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