Shakespeare's Festive World: Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage

According ancient appear associated become beginning Book calendar called Carnival celebrations century ceremonies Chambers character Christmas church cited collective comedy common connection considered court culture customs dance death Drama early Easter Elizabethan England English entitled example expression fact feast festivals figure give grotesque hand Henry important John kind king later Lent lines London Lord major marked Masque means merry Midsummer Morris dance nature night occasion organized Othello particular performed period play popular possible present probably processions Puritans Queen reference religious repr represented rites ritual Robert Robin Hood Saint scene seasonal seems seen Shakespeare shows Shrove Tuesday similar social sometimes stage suggests summer Sword symbolic theatre theme Thomas towns traditions turn various village whole winter women young