| Shakespeare, Rabelais, and the Comical-Historical Contributor(s): Alvarez-Detrell, Tamara (Editor), Paulson, Michael G. (Editor), McLoughlin, Cathleen T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820440981 ISBN-13: 9780820440989 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $78.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Shakespeare - Art - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| LCCN: 98-36829 |
| Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures |
| Physical Information: 184 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This intertextual reading of William Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I & II with Fran ois 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. |
