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Shakespeare and the Middle Ages /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191569715 0191569712 0199558175 9780199558179 |