"Bonfire of the Vanities: Pleasure, Theory, Shakespeare"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc1917/
Author:
	McEleney, Corey.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 24, no.  1 (2013): 137–68.
Annotation:
	Relates Shakespeare's Richard II to the fifteenth-century "bonfire of the vanities." Suggests that the play tries to "purge its dramatic world of the vain pleasure." Contends that criticism of Renaissance literature should related to both pleasure and utility.
Language:
	English
Tags:
	Richard II, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Spring 2015
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc1917