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Shakespeare and Carnival After Bakhtin

This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. The plays discussed include: 2 <EM>Henry VI</EM>; <EM>Romeo and Juliet</EM>; <EM>A Midsummer Night's Dream</EM>; 1 & 2 <EM>Henry IV</EM>; <EM>The Merry Wives of Windsor</EM>; <EM>Hamlet</EM>; <EM>Measure for Measure</EM>; <EM>The Winter's Tale</EM>; <EM>Henry VIII</EM>. Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering both a developed application, or critique of, Bakhtin's thought. This volume makes an original contribution to the study of change and continuity in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period.

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