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I'm surprised to hear that any professor would dispute the
claim that carnival was a theme in 12N. Maybe the problem
is how you've articulated what carnival is?I think that the contest between Toby and Malvolio is set
up as a farly conventional war between Carnival
and Lent (you could look at the Breugel painting of that
name and see lots of parallels) - though it gets more complex
since Malvolio - who is supposed to stand for restraint and
government in this pairing has riotious and transgressive
fantasies about his mistress and since Toby et al impose
physical restraint on M.Posted by Cloten on April 12, 1997 at 15:06:38
In Reply to "Carnivalesque theme in Twelfth Night" posted by TN on April 11, 1997 at 09:11:55
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