Shakespeare and Carnival: After Bakhtin

by R. Knowles (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333711422
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/11/1998
Series:	Early Modern Literature in History
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

RONALD KNOWLES is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and has taught at the University of Reading since 1971. His recent books include Henry IV 1&2. 'The Critics Debate', Understanding Harold Pinter and Gulliver's Travels. The Politics of Satire. He has written many articles on Pinter and Shakespeare and is Associate Editor in Britain of The Pinter Reviews. Currently he is editing 2 Henry VI for the Arden Shakespeare.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Papers from a 1995 conference assess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to the theory of carnivalesque. Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering developed application, or critiques, of Bakhtin's thought as expounded in . Subjects include the grotesque body in figures such as Jack Cade and Falstaff, the Dance of Death and the calendrical festival, the religious roots of Bakhtin's thought in Plato and Erasmus, and the emergence of bourgeois hygiene in Renaissance culture. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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