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Shakespeare and Carnival

After Bakhtin

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Ronald Knowles

    1. University of Reading, UK

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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Ronald Knowles
    Pages 1-12

  3. ‘A short report and not otherwise’: Jack Cade in 2 Henry VI

    • Stephen Longstaffe
    Pages 13-35

  4. Carnival and Death in Romeo and Juliet

    • Ronald Knowles
    Pages 36-60

  5. The Carnivalesque in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    • David Wiles
    Pages 61-82

  6. Shakespeare’s ‘Battle of Carnival and Lent’: The Falstaff Scenes Reconsidered (1&2 Henry IV)

    • François Laroque
    Pages 83-96

  7. Facing Puritanism: Falstaff, Martin Marprelate and the Grotesque Puritan

    • Kristen Poole
    Pages 97-122

  8. The Evacuations of Falstaff (The Merry Wives of Windsor)

    • Jonathan Hall
    Pages 123-151

  9. Towards a Theory of Play and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet

    • Phyllis Gorfain
    Pages 152-176

  10. Shakespeare, Carnival and the Sacred: The Winter’s Tale and Measure for Measure

    • Anthony Gash
    Pages 177-210

  11. ‘Swimming on bladders’: the Dialogics of Reformation in Shakespeare & Fletcher’s Henry VIII

    • Gordon McMullan
    Pages 211-227

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 228-232
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About this book

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.

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  • University of Reading, UK

    Ronald Knowles

About the editor

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.

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