Introduction: carnival and literature in early modern England
Grotesque imperialists, alien scapegoats, and feasting in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and The Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
Protestant spiritualism, English nationalism, and holiday festivity in Spenser's Shepheardes calendar and The faerie queene
Carnival, economics, and social mobility in Dekker's Shoemaker's holiday, Shakespeare's Twelfth night and The winter's tale, and Jonson's Bartholomew fair
The decline of carnivalesque egalitarianism: Milton's Comus, Herrick's Hesperides, and Mardi Gras appropriations of renaissance texts in the American deep South.
Carnival and literature in early modern England by Jennifer C. Vaught. ISBN 9781409432098. Published by Ashgate Pub. in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.