IT is the distinction between a snicker and a laugh that has given Rabelais to the ages. For his was the big honest laugh, the "rire immense" understandable by and irresistible to all men. What is ...

SHAKESPEARE AND RABELAIS. Share full article. Feb. 22, 1880. ... and these two, naturally and properly enough, were Francois Rabelais and Christopher Marlowe. ...

David Mazon, the 30-year-old anthropologist at the center of “The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild,” has also entered Rabelais country, in more ways than he knows.