ISBN Carnival And Theater : Plebian Culture And The Structure Of Authority In Renaissance England book Theatre English 250 pages

…Bristol has written a worthwhile and stimulating book that places the theatrical experience in a new and illuminating historical context' – Theatre Survey
'Bristol’s is a complex and impressive argument, making us reconsider traditional evaluations of individual plays' – Times Higher Education Supplement
'In Carnival and Theater, Michael Bristol presents a careful blend of literary criticism and social history. With its sophisticated theoretical framework and its convincing demonstration of the polyvocal and multi-layered nature of cultural production, Carnival and Theater provides and exemplary model of cultural criticism that will be valuable to scholars from a variety of disciplines and perspectives' – Journal of Social History