This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare''s plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering both a developed application, or critique of, Bakhtin''s thought.

This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare''s plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering both a developed application, or critique of, Bakhtin''s thought.