Hyperion and the Hobbyhorse: Studies in Carnivalesque Subversion

Author / Editor
Lindley, Arthur.

Title
Hyperion and the Hobbyhorse: Studies in Carnivalesque Subversion

Published
Newark:
London: University of Delaware Press;
Associated University Presses, 1996.

Physical Description
197 pp.

Description
Assesses how select literary works "encode subversive possibilities within orthodox gestures."
An opening essay explores the possibilities of the carnivalesque within an Augustinian framework, and subsequent essays examine such possibilities in WBT (revised reprint of SAC 16 [1994], no. 193); "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; Marlowe's works, especially "Tamburlaine" and "Dr. Faustus"; Elizabethan tragedy, especially "Hamlet" and "The Revenger's Tragedy"; and "Antony and Cleopatra".

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.