![]() ![]() ![]() When the Fool disappears, others have to take on in the stormy night of King Lear. The resentful exit of Malvolio leaves us confused in Twelfth Night. This is clearly visible in the Early Modern theatre of Shakespeare. ![]() But, parallel to the strange fate of the clown “on stage” the carnival can become problematic as well. This is how the phenomenology of the clown par excellence and the carnival are ontologically related to each other. Moreover, her repeated jumps to recover bear ritual laughter mocking the figure of Death. The “Clown or Fool par excellence” embodies the carnival’s topsy-turvy attitude and transgresses all borders of reason and social order. My book is an attempt to define carnival in relation to another entity that is always and necessarily associated with the carnival, still, easier to identify. It is not an easy task to understand the nature of carnival as it is shown by the many failures of the last century after Mikhail Bakhtin’s work became generally known. ![]()
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