Shakespeare, Rabelais, and the Comical-Historical / Cathleen T. Mcloughlin.
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820440981
ISBN-13
9780820440989
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 15th, 2000
Print length
184 Pages
Weight
386 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.70 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
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This intertextual reading of William Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part I & II with François Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel suggests that sufficient evidence exists to question the widespread denial of any knowledge of Rabelais on the part of Shakespeare. In each work, a prince participates in a process of education in preparation to succeed his father. Each prince shares adventures with an unconventional, comic companion. History and comedy form a hybrid genre, the Comical-Historical. Foundational chapters discuss the works of two other writers of hybridized genres, Lucian and Erasmus, as well as several visual artifacts of the time period. The figure of Socrates in a variety of guises appears in the work of the four writers. Shakespeare, this study suggests, extends the tradition established for the renaissance by Erasmus and augmented by Rabelais.
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