Shakespeare and carnival
Subtitle: after Bakhtin
By: edited by Ronald Knowles.
Contributors: Knowles, Ronald, 1940-
Series: Early modern literature in history
Publisher: Macmillan Press; St. Martin's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Manners and customs.; Bakhtin, M. M. 1895-1975.; Carnival in literature.; Literature and history -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Literature and history -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Other titles: Shakespeare and carnival after Bakhtin
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A short report and not otherwise / Stephen Longstaffe; title: Carnival and death in Romeo and Juliet / Ronald Knowles; title: The carnivalesque in A midsummer night's dream / David Wiles; title: Shakespeare's battle of carnival and Lent / Franc̜ois Laroque; title: Facing Puritanism / Kristen Poole; title: The evacuation of Falstaff (The merry wives of Windsor) / Jonathan Hall; title: Towards a theory of play and the carnivalesque in Hamlet / Phyllis Gorfain; title: Shakespeare's carnival and the sacred, The winter's tale and Measure for measure / Anthony Gash; title: Swimming on bladders : the dialogics of reformation in Shakespeare & Fletcher's Henry VIII / Gordon McMullan.