Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Konrad Eisenbichler and Wim Hüsken -- Introduction / Konrad Eisenbichler -- The Carnivalesque in the Robin Hood Games and King Ales of Southern England / Peter H. Greenfield -- ‘Better be sott Somer than Sage Salamon’: Carnivalesque Features in John Heywood’s Plays / Roberta Mullini -- Why Is Carnival So Wild? / Samuel Kinser -- Fictions, Realities and the Fifteenth-Century Nuremberg Fastnachtspiel / James R. Erb -- The Judgement of Paris : Three Late Medieval Fastnachtspiele from Northern Europe / Leif Søndergaard -- Jeu de Carnaval et Antisémitisme: Pureté Théologique et Pureté Ethnique chez Hans Folz / Guy Borgnet -- La Satire Sociale dans le Répertoire de la Mère Folle de Dijon / Juliette Valcke -- Carnaval, Parva et “Monde à l’Envers” chez Gil Vicente / Maria José Palla -- Carnivalesque Iconography in Early Baroque Festivals of the Immaculate Conception in Seville: A World Turned Inside Out / Manuel J. Gómez Lara and Jorge Jiménez Barrientos -- Le Théâtre Basque de Carnaval et son Contexte Historique / Iñaki Mozos Muxika -- Rural Carnival in the Catalan-Speaking Countries: the Survival of Early Popular Drama / Jordi Bertran -- Approche du Comique Carnavalesque dans le Théâtre Populaire Catalan de Source Médiévale / Josep M. Martorell Coca -- New World Traditions in the Study of Early English Custom and Customary Drama / Thomas Pettitt.

From the Fool to the Wildman, from the irate Reformer to the festive Masqueraders, this collection of articles offers a variety of topics, approaches, and agendas in the study of early modern European theatre. With samplings from Scandinavia, Germany, England, France, the Iberian peninsula, and even the New World, this collection also spans time, from the late fifteenth century to the present. In the process, Carnival and the carnivalesque are examined from archival, Bakhtinian, cultural, and even political points of view. The articles in this collection reveal the variety and inherent vitality of scholarship in early modern theatre. The thirteen essays have been selected from presentations made at the Eighth Triennial Congress of the Société Internationale pour l'Etude du Théâtre Médiéval held in Toronto (1995), under the auspices of the Records of Early English Drama project and Victoria University in the University of Toronto.

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