03504nam 22007331 450 991079115410332120200514202323.01-4081-3899-91-904271-78-21-4725-5524-41-4081-3898-010.5040/9781472555243(CKB)2550000001351849(EBL)1778992(SSID)ssj0001378494(PQKBManifestationID)11829892(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001378494(PQKBWorkID)11339587(PQKB)10548962(MiAaPQ)EBC1778992(Au-PeEL)EBL1778992(CaPaEBR)ebr10927484(CaONFJC)MIL641860(OCoLC)893332523(OCoLC)890146619(UkLoBP)bpp09256895(MiAaPQ)EBC6163065(EXLCZ)99255000000135184920140929d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrShakespeare and the medieval world /Helen CooperLondon :Arden Shakespeare,2010.1 online resource (287 p.)The Arden critical companionsDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-10609-6 1-4081-7232-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-263) and index.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 structureDumbshows, 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; YThis text provides a panoramic overview of the influence of medieval culture on Shakespeare's plays and poems that opens up new vistas within his work uncovering the richness of his inheritance.Arden critical companions.English literatureMiddle English, 1100-1500Medieval influencesMiddle Ages in literatureCivilization, Medieval, in literatureEnglish literatureMedieval influences.Middle Ages in literature.Civilization, Medieval, in literature.822.33HI 3323rvkHI 3385rvk18.05bclCooper Helen1947-1474109UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910791154103321Shakespeare and the medieval world3831651UNINA