Imagining inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare /

Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the king's forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at night by fears of falling; a seventeenth-century noblewoman who commissions copies upon copies o...

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Main Author: Davis, Alex (English professor) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
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