Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; R.Knowles A Short Report and Not Otherwise: Jack Cade in 2 Henry VI ; S.Longstaffe Carnival and Death in Romeo and Juliet ; R.Knowles The Carnivalesque in A Midsummer Night's Dream ; D.Wiles Shakespeare's 'Battle of Carnival and Lent'. The Falstaff Scenes Reconsidered ( 1&2 Henry IV ); F.Laroque Facing Puritanism: Falstaff, Martin Marpetlate and the Grotesque Puritan; K.Poole The Evacuations of Falstaff ( The Merry Wives of Windsor ); J.Hall Towards a Theory of Play and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet ; P.Gorfain Shakespeare's Carnival and the Sacred. Measure For Measure and The Winter's Tale ; A.Gash 'Swimming on Bladders': the Dialogics of Reformation in Shakespeare & Fletcher's Henry VIII ; G.McMullan Index