Carnival and literature in early modern England
This book 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, Jenn...
| Основен автор: | Vaught, Jennifer C. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Pub.,
℗♭2012.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=460610 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Carnival and literature in early modern England. |
| Резюме: |
This book 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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (200 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781409432098 1409432092 |