| Description |
1 online resource (x, 232 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Early modern literature in history |
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Early modern literature in history.
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| Contents |
A short report and not otherwise / Stephen Longstaffe -- Carnival and death in Romeo and Juliet / Ronald Knowles -- The carnivalesque in A midsummer night's dream / David Wiles -- Shakespeare's battle of carnival and Lent / Franc̜ois Laroque -- Facing Puritanism / Kristen Poole -- The evacuation of Falstaff (The merry wives of Windsor) / Jonathan Hall -- Towards a theory of play and the carnivalesque in Hamlet / Phyllis Gorfain -- Shakespeare's carnival and the sacred, The winter's tale and Measure for measure / Anthony Gash -- Swimming on bladders : the dialogics of reformation in Shakespeare & Fletcher's Henry VIII / Gordon McMullan |
| Summary |
This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. The plays discussed include: 2 Henry VI; Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night's Dream; 1 & 2 Henry IV; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Hamlet; Measure for Measure; The Winter's Tale; Henry VIII . Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering both a developed application, or critique of, Bakhtin's thought. This volume makes an original contribution to the study of change and continuity in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Manners and customs
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Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975
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| SUBJECT |
Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975 fast |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
| Subject |
Carnival in literature.
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Literature and history -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Literature and history -- England -- History -- 17th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Carnival in literature
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Literature and history
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Manners and customs
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Carnaval.
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England
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Knowles, Ronald, 1940-
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| ISBN |
9780230000810 |
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0230000819 |
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0333995325 |
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9780333995327 |
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9780333711422 |
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0333711424 |
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9780312212773 |
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0312212771 |
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