What did Bakhtin think about the theatre? That it was outdated? That is ‘stopped being a serious genre’ after Shakespeare? Could a thinker to whose work ide

Contents: 1. Carnival of sorts. - 2. Sejanus plays antics. - 3. Catiline's spoiled party. - 4. 'A silent woman' is hard to find. - 5. Fair time for pigs and kin

This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and th

In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a soc