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Shakespeare and the medieval world /
Helen Cooper's unique study examines how continuations of medieval culture into the early modern period, forged Shakespeare's development as a dramatist and poet. Medieval culture pervaded his life and work, from his childhood, spent within reach of the last performances of the Coventry Co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Arden Shakespeare,
2010.
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| Colección: | Arden critical companions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.