The Carnival Features of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Journal: Journal of Higher Education Research DOI: 10.32629/jher.v3i3.887

Xiaoyan Pan

College of Foreign Languages & Literature, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China

Abstract

Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a romantic comedy work, which is full of strange and absurd elements, presenting a romantic color of fantasy humor. The dramatic presentation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is very consistent with the literary theorist Bakhtin's carnival literary theory, who is from the former Soviet Union. This paper will discuss the connection between Bakhtin's carnival theory and the creation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and then a concrete analysis of the carnival characteristics of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is made, in order to achieve a deep interpretation of the creation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Keywords

"A Midsummer Night's Dream", Bakhtin, carnival

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