Shakespeare, Rabelais, and the Comical-Historical
(Sprache: Englisch)
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....
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Cathleen T. McLoughlin
The Author: Cathleen T. McLoughlin teaches English Literature at Marymount Manhattan College.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Cathleen T. McLoughlin
- 2000, Neuausg., XVI, 184 Seiten, 5 Abbildungen, Maße: 15,6 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- ISBN-10: 0820440981
- ISBN-13: 9780820440989
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.03.2000
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Englisch
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"This is an original and fascinating comparative study of two giants of Western literature - Shakespeare and Rabelais. Without attempting to prove a direct influence, Cathleen McLoughlin brings out the parallels and intertextual points of contact that reveal common literary and artistic sources of inspiration. These include the carnivalesque motifs of a popular imaginary, the academic tradition of Renaissance and classical Greek literature, as well as the visual innovations of sixteenth-century painters. Dr. McLoughlin thus effectively illuminates the intricacies and polyphony of Shakespeare's art by way of insights gained from an informed analysis of Rabelais's masterpieces. (Karlis Racevskis, Department of French and Italian, Ohio State University)"This study opens a new area of Shakespearean scholarship relating Rabelais and Shakespeare. I highly recommend this work which uses Renaissance visual arts to support its argument. (W.R. Elton, Editor of 'Shakespearean International Yearbook')
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