Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England - Jennifer C. Vaught - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9781138268807 - November 25, 2016
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Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England 1st edition

Jennifer C. Vaught

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Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England 1st edition

Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England explores the elite and popular festive materials appropriated by authors during the English Renaissance in a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic texts. Although historical records of rural, urban, and courtly seasonal customs in early modern England exist only in fragmentary form, Jennifer Vaught traces the sustained impact of festivals and rituals on the plays and poetry of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writers. She focuses on the diverse ways in which Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson, Milton and Herrick incorporated the carnivalesque in their works. Further, she demonstrates how these early modern texts were used-and misused-by later writers, performers, and inventors of spectacles, notably Mardi Gras krewes organizing parades in the American Deep South. The works featured here often highlight violent conflicts between individuals of different ranks, ethnicities, and religions, which the author argues reflect the social realities of the time. These Renaissance writers responded to republican, egalitarian notions of liberty for the populace with radical support, ambivalence, or conservative opposition. Ultimately, the vital, folkloric dimension of these plays and poems challenges the notion that canonical works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries belong only to 'high' and not to 'low' culture.


208 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 25, 2016
ISBN13 9781138268807
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 208
Dimensions 453 g
Language English  

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