SECONDARY READINGS FOR ’Shakespeare and Carnival’
(when you see two articles to one play, you can read either, only one is compulsory for the exam)
Henry IV, Parts 1& 2:
Laroque, Francois: ”Shakespeare’s ’Battle of Carnival and Lent’: The Falstaff Scenes reconsidered (1&2 Henry IV) in Shakespeare and Carnival. After Bakhtin. Ed. by R. Knowles. London, Macmillan, 1998. pp. 83-96. (MTAK, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Science)
Romeo and Juliet:
Knowles, R. ”Carnival and Death in Romeo and Juliet” in Shakespeare and Carnival. After Bakhtin. Ed. by R. Knowles. London, Macmillan, 1998. pp.36-60. (MTAK)
A Midsummernight’s Dream:
Barber, C.L. ”May Games and Metamorphoses on a Midsummer Night” in Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy. Ohio: World Publishing, 1967 (1959) 119-162. (MTAK)
Wall, Wendy. ”Why Does Puck Sweep?:Fairylore,Merry Wives, and Social Struggle” Shakespeare Quarterly
Twelfth Night, or What you Will:
John Astington: ”Malvolio and the Eunuchs: Texts and revels in Twelfth Night” Shakespeare Survey vol. 46. pp 23-34. (DELL Library)
Julius Ceasar:
Richard Wilson: ”’Is this a holiday?’: Shakespeare’s Roman carnival” in Wilson, Richard in New Historicism and Renaissance Drama. pp. 145-156. (DELL Library or available through JSTOR in ELH Vol. 54 (1987) pp. 31-44.
Hamlet
Bristol, Michael D.(1994), “’Funeral Bak’d Meats’: Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet” in Hamlet. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. Ed. by Susanne L. Wofford. Boston, New York: St. Martin Press, 1994. 348-367. (DELL Library)
Montgomerie, W. ”Folk play and ritual in Hamlet” Folklore, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Dec., 1956), pp. 214-227 (JSTOR)
Othello
Martin Ingram: ”Ridings, rough music, and the reform of ’popular culture’ in early modern England. Past & Present, No. 105 (Nov., 1984), pp. 79-113 (JSTOR)
Laroque, F. ”Othello and the festive traditions” in Shakespeare’s festive world. Elizabethan seasonal entertainment and the professional stage.Transl. by J. Lloyd. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993pp. 284-300.
King Lear
Young, Alan R. ” The Written and Oral Sources of King Lear and the Problem of Justice in the Play ” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 15, No. 2, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Spring, 1975), pp. 309-319
Pikli, Natália: „Lear, a karneválkirály” in Az értelmezés rejtett terei. Shakespeare-tanulmányok.Szerk. Géher István és Kiss Attila Atilla. Kijárat Kiadó, 2003. 111-129. (MTAK library)
The Tempest
13. Pask, K. ” Prospero's Counter-Pastoral” Criticism, Volume 44, Number 4, Fall 2002, pp. 389-404
Suggested readings:
Bakhtin, M: Rabelais and His World. Transl. By H. Iswolsky. Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1984. (first edition in the same translation: 1968), esp. The Inroduction
Michael D. Bristol: Carnival and Theater. Plebeian Culture and the Structure of Authority in Renaissance England. New York and London: Routledge, 1989 (first edition: 1985)
Hutton R. The Rise and Fall of Merry England. The Ritual Year 1400-1700. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994
G. Wilson Knight: ”King Lear and the Comedy of the Grotesque” in The Wheel of Fire pp. 160-176. (DELL Library)
Laroque, F. Shakespeare’s festive world. Elizabethan seasonal entertainment and the professional stage.Transl. by J. Lloyd. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993
Patterson, Annabel. Shakespeare and the popular voice. Oxford, Blackwell, 1989.
Rhodes, Neil: Elizatbethan grotesque. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980
Ruiter, David: Shakespeare’s Festive History. Feasting, fasting and Lent in the Second Henriad. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003
Thomas, Keith, “The Place of Laughter in Tudor and Stuart England”. Times Literary Supplement, 21 Jan. 1977, pp. 77-81.