Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England
Author | : Jennifer C. Vaught |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
ISBN-10 | : 1409432084 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781409432081 |
Rating | : 4/5 (081 Downloads) |
Download or read book Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England written by Jennifer C. Vaught and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England explores the elite and popular festival materials appropriated by Renaissance writers in a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic texts. Jennifer Vaught focuses on how Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson, Milton and Herrick incorporated the carnivalesque in their works. Further, she demonstrates how these texts were used-and misused-by later writers and inventors of spectacles, notably Mardi Gras krewes in New Orleans.