Shakespeare and the Medieval World 1st Edition by Helen Cooper ISBN 1408138980 9781408138984

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ISBN 10: 1408138980

ISBN 13: 9781408138984

Author:  Helen Cooper 

Shakespeare and the Medieval World 1st Edition: 

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 World 1st Edition Table of contents:

• 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 action
  • Three 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

 

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