Essays
Shakespeare and Carnival
1998·232 pages
Scholarly essays applying Bakhtin’s carnivalesque theory to Shakespeare, exploring festival, the grotesque body, and festive culture.
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Scholarly essays applying Bakhtin’s carnivalesque theory to Shakespeare, exploring festival, the grotesque body, and festive culture.
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This book is the first collection to assess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to the theory of the carnivalesque. Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering developed applications, or critiques, of Bakhtin's thought as expounded in Rabelais and His World Following an introductory overview of Bakhtin's ideas, the grotesque body looms large in such figures as Jack Cade, Falstaff and Cardinal Wolsey. Elsewhere the Dance of Death jostles with folk custom and c...
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Sexual content
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Recurring scholarly discussion of bawdy comedy, the body, and sexual carnival motifs
Violence & gore
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Analysis of death, rebellion, and Dance of Death motifs across several plays
Profanity
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Occasional discussion of Shakespearean bawdy and coarse festive language
Substance use
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Brief treatment of feasting, drinking, and Falstaffian excess in carnival context
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Recurring themes: Puritanism, clergy figures, Erasmus, and religious roots of carnival
Magic & witchcraft
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Brief discussion of fairy and festive magic in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central focus on hierarchy inversion, class, carnival politics, and social order
Self-harm / suicide
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Passing analytical reference via Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet death themes
Abuse & suffering
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Referenced historical cruelty and rebellion (e.g. Jack Cade) in critical context
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