Titlebook: Shakespeare and Carnival; After Bakhtin Ronald Knowles (Senior Lecturer in English) Book 1998 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan P

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Towards a Theory of Play and the Carnivalesque in ,riation of the carnivalesque.. Yet few specific citations to particular plays or scenes illustrate Bakhtin’s admiration for Shakespeare’s dramatic methods. Bakhtin’s most elaborate discussion of Shakespeare’s carnivalesque methods is more provocative than probing; this typical passage among the 15 r

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Shakespeare, Carnival and the Sacred: , and ,essed in the process of paraphrase. The first is his interest in the development of the language of festivity by a specific literary tradition with its roots in antiquity which he sometimes calls ‘Menippean’ and the second is the convergence of Christian theology with the terms in which Bakhtin desc

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,Shakespeare’s ‘Battle of Carnival and Lent’: The Falstaff Scenes Reconsidered (,),e grotesque, it is the moment in the year when it is dynamically expressed in strings of abuse, in a number of comical and unexpected images; this shows how the aesthetics of the grotesque had become tied up with calendrical customs which served both to regulate and discharge the energies of popular festivity.

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Towards a Theory of Play and the Carnivalesque in , of Shakespeare with Rabelais and the other Renaissance writers applies mainly to the festive comedies, the Falstaffian realm of exaggeration, gluttony, abuse and defiance to which Bakhtin parallels the Rabelaisian world of celebration and scurrility..

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