Medieval Shakespeare : pasts and presents /

"For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned sch...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Morse, Ruth (Editor), Cooper, Helen, 1947- (Editor), Holland, Peter, 1951- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Middle Ages. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Sources. Middle Ages in literature. English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > Medieval influences. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Introduction; Shakespeare's Middle Ages; Books and language; The British past; The theatrical dimension; Part I The Middle Ages and Shakespeare; Chapter 1 Shakespeare's Middle Ages; Chapter 2 Late Shakespeare and the Middle Ages; I; II; III; IV; Part II Books and language; Chapter 3 The mediated `medieval' and Shakespeare; Periodization, textual conditions and literary historiography; Expanded production capacity, mixed audiences, reprints; Shakespeare's Troys: lost empires found in reprint.