Introduction
1 Shakespeare in His Youth and His works
2 Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies
3 Shakespeare and Carnivalesque
Section One The Exterior Carnivalesque Elements
1 Festive Rites
2 Game and Life
3 Grotesque Body
Section Two The Interior Carnivalesque Characteristics
1 An Objective Authorial Position
2 The Multiplicity of Meaning
3 The Open-Endedness
Section Three The Upside-down World
1 The Inversion of Genders
2 The Reversion of Age Groups
3 The Subversion of Classes
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix