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Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

Author : Martha W. Driver
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491655
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Middle Ages written by Martha W. Driver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright’s medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. With a foreword by Michael Almereyda (director of the Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke) and dramaturge Dakin Matthews, these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our appreciation of Shakespeare’s plays.

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

Author : Curtis Perry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199558175
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Middle Ages written by Curtis Perry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 worked as well. Several of the essays reread Shakespeare by recovering aspects of his works that are derived from medieval traditions and whose significance has been obscured by the desire to read Shakespeare as the origin of the modern. These essays, taken cumulatively, challenge the idea of any decisive break between the medieval period and early modernity by demonstrating continuities of form and imagination that clearly bridge the gap. Other essays explore the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries constructed or imagined relationships between past and present. Attending to the way these writers thought about their relationship to the past makes it possible, in turn, to read against the grain of our own teleological investment in the idea of early modernity. A third group of essays reads texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries as documents participating in social-cultural transformation from within. This means attending to the way they themselves grapples with the problem of change, attempting to respond to new conditions and pressures while holding onto customary habits of thought and imagination. Taken together, the essays in this volume revisit the very idea of transition in a refreshingly non-teleological way.

Medieval Shakespeare

Author : Ruth Morse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107016274
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Shakespeare written by Ruth Morse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives readers the opportunity to appreciate Shakespeare from the perspectives of the late-medieval European traditions that surrounded him.

Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages

Author : Alfred Thomas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319902180
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages written by Alfred Thomas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in order to critique the oppressive nature of the Tudor-Stuart state. In examining Shakespeare’s Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Winter’s Tale, the text explores how Shakespeare repossessed the medieval past to articulate political and religious dissent. By comparing these and other plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries with their medieval analogues, Alfred Thomas argues that Shakespeare was an ecumenical writer concerned with promoting tolerance in a highly intolerant and partisan age.

Shakespeare and the Medieval World

Author : Helen Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408138980
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Medieval World written by Helen Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Corpus Christi plays, to his dramatisation of Chaucer in The Two Noble Kinsmen three years before his death. The world he lived in was still largely a medieval one, in its topography and its institutions. The language he spoke had been forged over the centuries since the Norman Conquest. The genres in which he wrote, not least historical tragedy, love-comedy and romance, were medieval inventions. A high proportion of his plays have medieval origins and he kept returning to Chaucer, acknowledged as the greatest poet in the English language. Above all, he grew up with an English tradition of drama developed during the Middle Ages that assumed that it was possible to stage anything - all time, all space. Shakespeare and the Medieval World provides a panoramic overview that opens up new vistas within his work and uncovers the richness of his inheritance.

Shakespeare and the Medieval Tradition

Author : J. Paul McRoberts
Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Medieval Tradition written by J. Paul McRoberts and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

Author : Curtis Perry
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191569712
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Middle Ages written by Curtis Perry and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 worked as well. Several of the essays reread Shakespeare by recovering aspects of his works that are derived from medieval traditions and whose significance has been obscured by the desire to read Shakespeare as the origin of the modern. These essays, taken cumulatively, challenge the idea of any decisive break between the medieval period and early modernity by demonstrating continuities of form and imagination that clearly bridge the gap. Other essays explore the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries constructed or imagined relationships between past and present. Attending to the way these writers thought about their relationship to the past makes it possible, in turn, to read against the grain of our own teleological investment in the idea of early modernity. A third group of essays reads texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries as documents participating in social-cultural transformation from within. This means attending to the way they themselves grapples with the problem of change, attempting to respond to new conditions and pressures while holding onto customary habits of thought and imagination. Taken together, the essays in this volume revisit the very idea of transition in a refreshingly non-teleological way.

Shakespeare and the Medieval Tradition

Author : J. P. MacRoberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Medieval Tradition written by J. P. MacRoberts and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

Author : Helen Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521683068
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Middle Ages written by Helen Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-13 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Cooper's inaugural lecture traces the influence of medieval literature on the Renaissance, particularly in Shakespeare's work.

The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare

Author : Robert Hornback
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843843560
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare written by Robert Hornback and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new account of medieval and Renaissance clown traditions reveals the true extent of their cultural influence.

Shakespeare's Kings

Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571340261
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Kings written by John Julius Norwich and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare's Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare's history plays, from Edward III to Richard III. In a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare - when the crown was constantly contested, alliances were made and broken, and the people rose up in revolt - this was the raw material that inspired Shakespeare's dramas. But what really happened between 1337 and 1485? Where did history stop and drama begin? John Julius Norwich establishes just how real Shakespeare's characters and events are and what liberties he took with the facts to entertain his audience. Shakespeare's Kings is an illuminating companion to history and to the richness of Shakespeare's imagination, with a body of work which still shapes our view of the past today.

Shakespeare's Stories of the English Middle Ages

Author : Peter Whisson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595200001
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Stories of the English Middle Ages written by Peter Whisson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-09-24 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynastic turmoil in 15th Century England? No thanks! For many people Shakespeare's histories rank a distant third behind his tragedies and comedies. Obscure lords and long-forgotten battles. So the image goes. Yet some of these same plays tell superb stories, and contain scenes and characters that are among the liveliest and most memorable in all literature.Here, four of the very best, Richard the Second, Henry the Fourth Parts One and Two, and Henry the Fifth are presented as 'productions for the page'-consecutive stories for the modern reader. Be bemused no longer by endless kings, dukes and earls, acting out their arguments in iambic verse. Follow instead, as if in the midst of events, Shakespeare's masterly unfolding of a classic pattern of revolution, suppression of enemies, and conquest abroad.

Allegory and the Work of Melancholy

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004490795
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Allegory and the Work of Melancholy written by Jeremy Tambling and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written using critical theory, especially by Walter Benjamin, Blanchot and Derrida, Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval and Shakespeare reads medieval and early modern texts, exploring allegory within texts, allegorical readings of texts, and melancholy in texts. Authors studied are Langland and Chaucer, Hoccleve, on his madness, Lydgate and Henryson. Shakespeare's first tetralogy, the three parts of Henry VI and Richard III conclude this investigation of death, mourning, madness and of complaint. Benjamin's writings on allegory inspire this linking, which also considers Dürer, Baldung and Holbein and the dance of the dead motifs. The study sees subjectivity created as obsessional, paranoid, and links melancholia, madness and allegorical creation, where parts of the subject are split off from each other, and speak as wholes. Allegory and melancholy are two modes – a state of writing and a state of being - where the subject fragments or disappears. These texts are aware of the power of death within writing, which makes them, fascinating. The book will appeal to readers of literature from the medieval to the Baroque, and to those interested in critical theory, and histories of visual culture.

Family Life in the Age of Shakespeare

Author : Bruce W. Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313342407
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Family Life in the Age of Shakespeare written by Bruce W. Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the star-crossed romance of Romeo and Juliet to Othello's misguided murder of Desdemona to the betrayal of King Lear by his daughters, family life is central to Shakespeare's dramas. This book helps students learn about family life in Shakespeare's England and in his plays. The book begins with an overview of the roots of Renaissance family life in the classical era and Middle Ages. This is followed by an extended consideration of family life in Elizabethan England. The book then explores how Shakespeare treats family life in his plays. Later chapters then examine how productions of his plays have treated scenes related to family life, and how scholars and critics have responded to family life in his works. The volume closes with a bibliography of print and electronic resources. The volume begins with a look at the classical and medieval background of family life in the Early Modern era. This is followed by a sustained discussion of family life in Shakespeare's world. The book then examines issues related to family life across a broad range of Shakespeare's works. Later chapters then examine how productions of the plays have treated scenes concerning family life, and how scholars and critics have commented on family life in Shakespeare's writings. The volume closes with a bibliography of print and electronic resources for student research. Students of literature will value this book for its illumination of critical scenes in Shakespeare's works, while students in social studies and history courses will appreciate its use of Shakespeare to explore daily life in the Elizabethan age.

Essays on the Medieval Period and the Renaissance

Author : Ágnes Matuska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781527519329
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Medieval Period and the Renaissance written by Ágnes Matuska and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together extended versions of papers delivered at the 2015 meeting of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE). The timeframe the papers deal with, starting with 15th century devotional texts, including Tudor interludes, Shakespearean plays and their adaptations, and ending in Milton, embraces three centuries of the history of English literature. As such, the contributions offer not only a variety of methodological approaches and disciplinary perspectives, but also highlight converging problems within this broad field, crystallized around three main topics of scholarship and constituting the three thematic parts of the volume, each containing three to four chapters. The first part, entitled "Medieval and Early Modern Experiments with Genre", offers a set of readings that interpret texts in the light of their generic and thematic innovativeness. Attesting to the multiple ways in which Shakespeare is made our contemporary, the second part, "Shakespearean Texts and Adaptations Our Contemporaries", is comprised of essays on contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare and Renaissance theatre, taking the term "adaptation" in a broad sense. The contributions in the third part of the volume, "Perspectives on Milton", all focus on John Milton, highlighting debates or underrepresented discourses in Milton studies. What connects the papers of the volume as a whole is the reinterpretation of traditional critical assumptions through innovative methods, including viewpoints integrated from other disciplines and discourses, such as theatre studies, digital humanities and social sciences, addressing the relevance of both traditional and innovative topics within English studies in a contemporary academic context.

Shakespeare's Medieval Craft

Author : Kurt A. Schreyer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080145509X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Medieval Craft written by Kurt A. Schreyer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shakespeare's Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city’s cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects—as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors—to the Shakespearean stage.As Schreyer shows, the Chester Banns serve as a paradigm for how Shakespeare’s theater might have reflected on and incorporated the mystery play tradition, yet distinguished itself from it. For instance, he demonstrates that certain material features of Shakespeare’s stage—including the ass’s head of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theatrical space of Purgatory in Hamlet, and the knocking at the gate in the Porter scene of Macbeth—were in fact remnants of the earlier mysteries transformed to meet the exigencies of the commercial London playhouses. Schreyer argues that the ongoing agency of supposedly superseded theatrical objects and practices reveal how the mystery plays shaped dramatic production long after their demise. At the same time, these medieval traditions help to reposition Shakespeare as more than a writer of plays; he was a play-wright, a dramatic artisan who forged new theatrical works by fitting poetry to the material remnants of an older dramatic tradition.

Epic Performances from the Middle Ages Into the Twenty-First Century

Author : Fiona Macintosh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198804210
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Epic Performances from the Middle Ages Into the Twenty-First Century written by Fiona Macintosh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists with a rich storehouse of themes: this volume is the first systematic attempt to chart its afterlife across a range of diverse performance traditions, with analysis ranging widely across time, place, genre, and academic and creative disciplines.--Publisher description.