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Article: Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre.
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- March 22, 1998
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Liebler, Naomi Conn. 1995. New York: Routledge. $65 hc. xii + 266 pp.
Naomi Conn Liebler's book, Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre, has many good and useful things to say about Shakespearean tragedy. Alas, Liebler (like many recent writers on Shakespeare) is infected by the current rage to show herself knowledgeable in the French philosophers and their literary followers, both British and American. Her worst fault is the tendency to jargon. For better or worse (and I think worse), we may be getting used to terms like privilege (as a verb), ironize, valorize, and other -izes that render English barbarous. But imbricates, interpellates, ...