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Archaic style in English literature, 1590-1674 /

Munro explores the conscious use of archaic language by poets and dramatists including Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Munro, Lucy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction : conceptualising archaism
  • Within our own memory : old English and the early modern poet
  • Chaucer, Gower, and the anxiety of obsolescence
  • Archaic style in religious writing: immutability, controversy, prophecy
  • Staging generations: archaism and the theatrical past
  • Shepherds' speech : archaism and early Stuart pastoral drama
  • Archaism and the 'English' epic
  • Coda : looking backward, looking forward.