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Shakespeare and the medieval world / Helen Cooper.

Drama Online: Critical Studies and Performance Practice Available online

Drama Online: Critical Studies and Performance Practice

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Ebook Central Academic Complete
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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (287 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
London : Arden Shakespeare, 2010.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This text provides a panoramic overview of the influence of medieval culture on Shakespeare's plays and poems that opens up new vistas within his work uncovering the richness of his inheritance.
Contents:
  • Cover; CONTENTS; TEXTUAL NOTE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Introduction; Chapter One: Shakespeare's Medieval World; Remembered worlds; Continuities; The shape of life; The shape of death; The world of language; Chapter Two: Total Theatre; Remembering the religious drama; Shakespeare and the cycle plays; Chapter Three: Staging the Unstageable; Presenting the play; Immaterial beings; Imagining place; Time; Chapter Four: The Little World of Man; Language and personification; Man and the universe; Moral interludes and dramatic structure
  • Dumbshows, emblems and allegorical actionThree types: king, shepherd and fool; Chapter Five: The World of Fortune; The falls of great men; Tragedies from the medieval world; Chapter Six: Romance, Women and the Providential World; Heroines, inheritance and happy endings; Beyond the natural; The last plays; Pericles; Chapter Seven: Shakespeare's Chaucer; A Midsummer Night's Dream; A note on Bottom and the ass; Troilus and Cressida; The Two Noble Kinsmen; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Notes:
  • Description based upon print version of record.
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-263) and index.
ISBN:
  • 9781408138991
  • 1408138999
  • 9781904271789
  • 1904271782
  • 9781472555243
  • 1472555244
  • 9781408138984
  • 1408138980
OCLC:
893332523

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