Shakespeare and Carnival

1998. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-333-71141-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Early Modern Literature in History

This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering both a developed application, or critique of, Bakhtin's thought.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knowles, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; R.Knowles A Short Report and Not Otherwise: Jack Cade in 2 Henry VI; S.Longstaffe Carnival and Death in Romeo and Juliet; R.Knowles The Carnivalesque in A Midsummer Night's Dream; D.Wiles Shakespeare's 'Battle of Carnival and Lent'. The Falstaff Scenes Reconsidered ( 1&2 Henry IV ); F.Laroque Facing Puritanism: Falstaff, Martin Marpetlate and the Grotesque Puritan; K.Poole The Evacuations of Falstaff ( The Merry Wives of Windsor ); J.Hall Towards a Theory of Play and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet; P.Gorfain Shakespeare's Carnival and the Sacred. Measure For Measure and The Winter's Tale; A.Gash 'Swimming on Bladders': the Dialogics of Reformation in Shakespeare & Fletcher's Henry VIII; G.McMullan Index

Über Autor(innen)

RONALD KNOWLES is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and has taught at the University of Reading since 1971. His recent books include', and . He has written many articles on Pinter and Shakespeare and is Associate Editor in Britain of. Currently he is editing for the Arden Shakespeare.