The Power of Laughter:On the Carnival World Experience in The Emperor of the Moon
The Emperor of the Moon is second only to The Wanderer in popularity among all of Aphra Behn's plays.Some scholars believe that the play is just a mediocre work catering to the audience's vulgar tastes.The Moon Emperor combines the characteristics of landscape drama and farce.The mixed genre characteristics have puzzled researchers.We can effectively understand the serious thoughts contained in the text of The Moon Emperor from the perspective of Bakhtin's carnival world perception.Behn presented a carnival world experience in deconstructive landscape drama and Menippean style in the work,which was not seen in her previous works.Compared to John Dryden's mechanical and non dialectical metaphysical flaws,Behn's carnival feeling truly overcomes the constraints of authoritarian power.
The Emperor of the Moonlandscape dramafarceMenippean genrecarnival world experience
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