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Author Wiles, David.

Title Shakespeare's almanac : A midsummer night's dream, marriage, and the Elizabethan calendar / David Wiles
Published Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 1993

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 W'PONDS  820.33 A6M5 W6762  AVAILABLE
Description xvii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents 1. The Court Play -- 2. The Merry Wives of Windsor and Love's Labour's Lost -- 3. The Wedding Masque -- 4. Epithalamia and the Symbolism of Midsummer -- 5. Festive Inversion of Time and Place -- 6. Three Festivals -- 7. A Midsummer Night's Dream as Epithalamium -- 8. Weddings and Popular Astrology -- 9. The Percy-Devereux and Stanley-Vere Weddings -- 10. The Carey-Berkeley Wedding
Analysis English drama
English drama
Notes Bibliography: p185-192. - Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-192) and index
Subject Hunsdon, Henry Carey, Baron, 1526-1596 -- Family.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Occultism.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Relations with literary patrons
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Midsummer night's dream.
Astrology in literature.
Astrology -- In literature.
Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Calendar in literature.
Calendar -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Literary patrons -- Great Britain.
Marriage.
Marriages of royalty and nobility -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Marriages of royalty and nobility -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
Weddings in literature.
LC no. 93030088
ISBN 0859913988 (alk. paper)