Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England

By Jennifer C. Vaught

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409432084
• ISBN13: 9781409432081
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"