"Carnival's Dance of Death: Festivity in the Revenge Plays of Kyd, Shakespeare, and Middleton" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc25/ Author: Rollins, Benjamin. Type: Dissertation Year: 2013 Publication Information: Georgia State, 2013, not paginated. <p>Dissertations Abstracts International</p> Annotation: Draws on Shakespeare to argue that revenge plays "explore carnivalesque concerns" because revengers discover their subjectivity in "pleasure-seeking, self-serving urges of unofficial cultures." Language: English Keywords: revenge tragedy; carnivalesque; subjectivity Tags: Tragedies WSB Update: Winter 2012 WSB Record Number: bbbc25