Ritual and Ceremony in Shakespeare's Plays - Further Reading
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Alvis, John. “A Little Touch of the Night in Harry: The Career of Henry Monmouth.” In Shakespeare as Political Thinker, edited by John Alvis and Thomas G. West, pp. 95-125. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1981.
Argues that Hal/Henry's intent throughout the second tetralogy is to repudiate the concept of official, ceremonial monarchy and replace it with the spectacle of the king's personal glory.
Bristol, Michael D. “Charivari and the Comedy of Abjection in Othello.” Renaissance Drama n.s. XXI (1990): 3-21.
Compares the degradation and punishment of Othello to the carnivalesque social custom of charivari, through which xenophobic and misogynist communities controlled erotic desire and expressed their disapproval of unsuitable marriages.
Cannon, Walter W. “The King's Three Bodies: The Textual King and the Logic of Obedience in Henry V.”...
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