Falstaff: subjectivity between the carnival and the aesthetic.

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: July 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

Issues are presented concerning the cultural materialist and historicist interpretation which has been given to the character of Falstaff as portrayed in William Shakespeare's plays "Henry IV" parts 1 and 2.

New historicist and cultural materialist treatments of Shakespeare's 1 and 2 Henry IV have been reductive of Falstaff's complexity, subordinating him to mechanisms of power. However, Falstaff represents historically new forms of subjectivity reactive to early modern political power, but also resistant to it. A complex amalgam of theatrical, popular, literary, and cultural types, Falstaff ...

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