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Table 2. Elements of Carnival in Hamnet Performances.

Feature                                     How Expressed

(1) Valorization of Eros, life force       exuberant spirit of Hamnet activities

(2) Concatenation of life and death;       Punch-and-Judy-like treatment of death
     preoccupation with death, slapdash 
     treatment of it

(3) Transformations  of                    masking of identity through use of  nicks;
      identity                             textual "costumes" for roles; release from RL
                                           identity, license to be and do what you want;
                                           gender-switching

(4) Celebration, preoccupation             virtual representation of bodily functions, e.g.,
     w the body                            e.g., "piddling," "farting"

(5) Subversion of established              improvised parodization of Shakespeare; validation
     power                                 of rules and practices of IRC through mockery
                                                  

(6) Communitas                            team spirit; awareness of mutual undertaking; making
                                          history together; celebration; champagne

(7) Valorization of "low" language        obscenity; slang; colloquialisms

(8) Rejection of decorum                  breaches of both theater etiquette and IRC
                                          Netiquette: flirtation; noisy audience; throwing fruit;
                                          stealing nicks

(9) Anticlassical aesthetic               multiplicity of improvisational styles, and voices:
                                          juxtaposition of oral/written;  old/new; high/low,
                                                          

(10) Carnival as participatory            textual spectacle: event with beginning and end;
       spectacle                          performers vs. audience; blurring of boundaries; sense
                                          of occasion

(11) Sense of abandon                     the ilinx of wordplay
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