The introduction highlights the concept of "festivity" and how it reached its peak in the Elizabethan age. It also discloses Bakhtins concept of the "carnivalesque" and sheds light upon the Semiotic theory. The first chapter examines the festive elements in A Midsummer Nights Dream (1595) and As You Like It (1599) as comedies. The second chapter focuses on the festive elements in two of Shakespeares great tragedies: Othello (1602-3) and King Lear (1605). The third chapter discloses the festive elements in two of Shakespeares late romances: The Winters Tale (1610) and The Tempest (1611). The...
The introduction highlights the concept of "festivity" and how it reached its peak in the Elizabethan age. It also discloses Bakhtins concept of the "...
