Jours de Fête
Mark Thornton Burnett, 9 January 1992
Shakespeare’s Festive World: Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage
by François Laroque, translated by Janet Lloyd.
Cambridge, 423 pp., £45, September 1991,0 521 37549 5 Show More
by François Laroque, translated by Janet Lloyd.
Cambridge, 423 pp., £45, September 1991,
“... which related Shakespeare’s plays to Elizabethan calendrical customs. What distinguished Laroque’s book, however, was the breadth of its documentation and discussion, which spanned the entire corpus of Shakespeare’s writings, and its enviable command of recent explorations of popular culture, many of them the work of French folklorists and ... ”
