In this article I argue that an approach relying on metatheatrical analysis and Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque could account for the apparent subversivism of boy actor’s cross-dressing Renaissance stage: stage was rather part a sanctioned, conservative transgression. Comedy – linked to carnivalesque features shares with carnival its conservatively transgressive quality. The frequency references actors...

Members of the cast for the Gay Nineties Show, free outdoor attraction to be staged in conjunction with the Owl Festival, benefit carnival sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Texas at House April 18-19, were stepping up rehearsals to three a we§k Thursday as theproduction deadline neared. Mary Virginia Stevens will have the singing lead in the Gay Nineties attraction, supported by a sister ac...

In the Bosnian-Herzegovinian literary field, Alija Nametak established himself as a storyteller and novelist, but not poet playwright. this paper, for first time, poetic stylistic-formational features of Nametak's poetry published from 1925 to 1932 in magazines Jugoslovenska njiva, Književnik Novi Behar are fully presented. His youthful poetry, stratified into an intimate social thematic-motive...