Shakespeare and the Medieval World
Series: The Arden Critical Companions
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2014-09-22
Place of publication: London, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: EPUB
ISBN-13: 9781408138991
Copyright date: 2010
First sentence: The world in which Shakespeare lived was a medieval one.
Table of contents: label: TEXTUAL NOTE; label: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; label: ABBREVIATIONS; label: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; label: Introduction; label: Chapter One
title: Shakespeare’s Medieval World; label: Remembered worlds; label: Continuities; label: The shape of life; label: The shape of death; label: The world of language; label: Chapter Two
title: Total Theatre; label: Remembering the religious drama; label: Shakespeare and the cycle plays; label: Chapter Three
title: Staging the Unstageable; label: Presenting the play; label: Immaterial beings; label: Imagining place; label: Time; label: Chapter Four
title: The Little World of Man; label: Language and personification; label: Man andthe universe; label: Moral interludes and dramatic structure; label: Dumbshows, emblems and allegorical action; label: Three types: king, shepherd and fool; label: Chapter Five
title: The World of Fortune; label: The falls of greatmen; label: Tragedies from the medieval world; label: Chapter Six
title: Romance, Women and the Providential World; label: Heroines, inheritance and happy endings; label: Beyond the natural; label: The last plays; label: Pericles; label: Chapter Seven
title: Shakespeare’s Chaucer; label: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; label: A note on Bottom and the ass; label: Troilus and Cressida; label: The Two Noble Kinsmen; label: NOTES; label: BIBLIOGRAPHY; label: INDEX