| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The Arden critical companions |
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Arden critical companions.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
Helen Cooper's unique study examines how continuations of medieval culture into the early modern period, forged Shakespeare's development as a dramatist and poet. Medieval culture pervaded his life and work, from his childhood, spent within reach of the last performances of the Coventry Corpus Christi plays, to his dramatisation of Chaucer in The Two Noble Kinsmen three years before his death. The world he lived in was still largely a medieval one, in its topography and its institutions. The language he spoke had been forged over the centuries since the Norman Conquest. The genres in which he wrote, not least historical tragedy, love-comedy and romance, were medieval inventions. A high proportion of his plays have medieval origins and he kept returning to Chaucer, acknowledged as the greatest poet in the English language. Above all, he grew up with an English tradition of drama developed during the Middle Ages that assumed that it was possible to stage anything - all time, all space |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Middle Ages
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 gnd |
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Shakespeare, William -- Quellen und Vorbilder. idsbb |
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Shakespeare, William -- Geschichte. idsbb |
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Shakespeare, William. swd |
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Medieval influences
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Middle Ages in literature.
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature
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Middle Ages
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Middle Ages in literature
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Mittelalter
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Middeleeuwen.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781408138984 |
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1408138980 |
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9781472555243 |
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1472555244 |
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