Shakespeare and the medieval world / / Helen Cooper
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| Autore: |
Cooper Helen <1947->
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| Titolo: |
Shakespeare and the medieval world / / Helen Cooper
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Arden Shakespeare, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 822.33 |
| Soggetto topico: | English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Medieval influences |
| Middle Ages in literature | |
| Civilization, Medieval, in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-263) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Shakespeare and the medieval world |
| ISBN: | 1-4081-3899-9 |
| 1-904271-78-2 | |
| 1-4725-5524-4 | |
| 1-4081-3898-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910458491603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Arden critical companions.