Shakespeare and the Medieval World
By: Helen Cooper
Series: The Arden Critical Companions
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare; The Arden Shakespeare
Published: 2010-09-27
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781904271789
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Knowledge; Medieval influences; English literature; Criticism and interpretation; Mittelalter; Middeleeuwen; Middle Ages in literature; Middle Ages; Civilization, Medieval, in literature
First sentence: The world in which Shakespeare lived was a medieval one.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-263) and index.
Table of contents: label: TEXTUAL NOTE
pagenum: ix; label: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
pagenum: x; label: ABBREVIATIONS
pagenum: xi; label: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
pagenum: xiii; label: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter One
title: Shakespeare’s Medieval World
pagenum: 9; label: Remembered worlds
pagenum: 12; label: Continuities
pagenum: 16; label: The shape of life
pagenum: 22; label: The shape of death
pagenum: 28; label: The world of language
pagenum: 34; label: Chapter Two
title: Total Theatre
pagenum: 42; label: Remembering the religious drama
pagenum: 54; label: Shakespeare and the cycle plays
pagenum: 64; label: Chapter Three
title: Staging the Unstageable
pagenum: 72; label: Presenting the play
pagenum: 74; label: Immaterial beings
pagenum: 80; label: Imagining place
pagenum: 89; label: Time
pagenum: 97; label: Chapter Four
title: The Little World of Man
pagenum: 103; label: Language and personification
pagenum: 108; label: Man andthe universe
pagenum: 111; label: Moral interludes and dramatic structure
pagenum: 115; label: Dumbshows, emblems and allegorical action
pagenum: 125; label: Three types: king, shepherd and fool
pagenum: 131; label: Chapter Five
title: The World of Fortune
pagenum: 139; label: The falls of greatmen
pagenum: 141; label: Tragedies from the medieval world
pagenum: 156; label: Chapter Six
title: Romance, Women and the Providential World
pagenum: 170; label: Heroines, inheritance and happy endings
pagenum: 179; label: Beyond the natural
pagenum: 187; label: The last plays
pagenum: 192; label: Pericles
pagenum: 196; label: Chapter Seven
title: Shakespeare’s Chaucer
pagenum: 204; label: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
pagenum: 211; label: A note on Bottom and the ass
pagenum: 219; label: Troilus and Cressida
pagenum: 221; label: The Two Noble Kinsmen
pagenum: 227; label: NOTES
pagenum: 235; label: BIBLIOGRAPHY
pagenum: 257; label: INDEX
pagenum: 265