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Cooper Helen <1947-> |
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Titolo |
Shakespeare and the medieval world / / Helen Cooper |
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London : , : Arden Shakespeare, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-4081-3899-9 |
1-904271-78-2 |
1-4725-5524-4 |
1-4081-3898-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Arden critical companions |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Medieval influences |
Middle Ages in literature |
Civilization, Medieval, in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-263) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This text provides a panoramic overview of the influence of medieval |
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