The King and Commoner Tradition: Carnivalesque Politics in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367593230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 226 str.

Mark Truesdale

Opis

This is the first detailed study of the late medieval and early modern King and Commoner literature: a tradition whose cultural influence extends from Robin Hood to Shakespearean drama. This book explores the morphing political character of these tales of disguised kings and disgruntled, poaching commoners, amid carnivalesque feasts and anti-nob

Spis treści

Introduction: "A rolle he had reading, / A bourde written therein he ffound"  1. Feasts and Surveillance in King Edward and the Shepherd: "Wode has erys; fylde has siȝt"  2. The Carnivalesque and Insurrection in John the Reeve: "I will cracke thy crowne!"  3. Hybridity and Transformation: Rauf Coilȝear, A Gest of Robin Hood, King Edward and the Hermit and The King and the Barker  4. Containment in the Early Modern Ballads: The King at the Keyhole.  Conclusion.  Appendix One: Early Analogues in Other Cultures, Chronicles, and Romance.  Appendix Two: The King and Commoner Tradition on the Stage: "Mingling Kinges and Clownes".  Appendix Three: Select King and Commoner Publication History

O autorze

Mark Truesdale completed his PhD in 2016 at Cardiff University, producing a study of the fifteenth-century King and Commoner tradition and its early modern afterlife.