Carnival and Theater (Routledge Revivals)

<p>In this title first published in 1985 Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism and its revisions in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; on the theories of Emile Durkheim and their adaptations in the work of Victor Turner; and on the history of social life and material culture as practiced by the <i>Annales</i> school. This valuable work is an important contribution to literary criticism theatre studies and social history and has particular importance for scholars interested in the dramatic literature of Elizabethan England.</p>