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Title first published in 2003. The author of this study explores how Shakespeare creates historical characters who engineer their supremacy, shore up their popular support, and/or sustain their charisma through manipulation of festive elements, which are found throughout the tetralogy and rooted in the English cultural psyche.
Contents
Contentswork, and after holiday': Richard II and the roots of a festive history; 'What, is it time to jest and dally now?': Hal's creation of the feast of Falstaff in 1 Henry IV; 'The unquiet time' of 2 Henry IV: Festivity and order in Flux; 'The turning o' the tide': the Lent of Agincourt and the return of the feast in Henry V; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.