Shakespeare and the Middle Ages
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2009
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed |
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 Volltext |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index Shakespeare's fickle fee-simple: A lover's complaint, nostalgia, and the transition from feudalism to capitalism / Christopher Warley -- Shakespeare's resurrections / Sarah Beckwith -- Towards a history of performativity: sacrament, social contract, and The merchant of Venice / Elizabeth Fowler -- Losing France and becoming England: Shakespeare's King John and the emergence of state-based diplomacy / John Watkins -- The voice of the author in 'The phoenix and turtle': Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser / Patrick Cheney -- Recursive origins: print history and Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI / William Kuskin -- Chantry, chronicle, cockpit: Henry V and the forms of history / Brian Walsh -- 'For they are Englishmen': national identities and the early modern drama of medieval conquest / Curtis Perry -- King Lear and the summons of death / Michael O'Connell -- Marvels and counterfeits: false resurrections in the Chester Antichrist and 1 Henry IV / Karen Sawyer Marsalek -- Shakespeare's medieval morality: The merchant of Venice and the Gesta Romanorum / Rebecca Krug Shakespeare and the Middle Ages brings together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of scholars to rethink the medieval origins of modernity. Shakespeare provides them with the perfect focus, since his works turn back to the Middle Ages as decisively as they anticipate the modern world: almost all of the histories depict events during the Hundred Years War, and King John glances even further back to the thirteenth-century Angevins; several of the comedies, tragedies, and romances rest on medieval sources; and there are important medieval antecedents for some of the poetic modes in which he |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 295 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0191569712 9780191569715 |