British Studies Lecture Series
British Studies Lecture Series
British Studies Lecture Series
Carnival in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
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Speaker – Wayne A. Rebhorn Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night has long been associated with the festive aspects of carnival, especially in its rejection of authority and the exploration of gender confusion in its main, romantic plot. But ‘carnival’ as used by Shakespeare also meant a time of grotesque liberation and indulgence. The carnivalesque can be disturbing as well […]