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Title Shakespeare and the Middle Ages / edited by Curtis Perry and John Watkins.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index.
Contents Shakespeare's fickle fee-simple: A lover's complaint, nostalgia, and the transition from feudalism to capitalism / Christopher Warley -- Shakespeare's resurrections / Sarah Beckwith -- Towards a history of performativity: sacrament, social contract, and The merchant of Venice / Elizabeth Fowler -- Losing France and becoming England: Shakespeare's King John and the emergence of state-based diplomacy / John Watkins -- The voice of the author in 'The phoenix and turtle': Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser / Patrick Cheney -- Recursive origins: print history and Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI / William Kuskin -- Chantry, chronicle, cockpit: Henry V and the forms of history / Brian Walsh -- 'For they are Englishmen': national identities and the early modern drama of medieval conquest / Curtis Perry -- King Lear and the summons of death / Michael O'Connell -- Marvels and counterfeits: false resurrections in the Chester Antichrist and 1 Henry IV / Karen Sawyer Marsalek -- Shakespeare's medieval morality: The merchant of Venice and the Gesta Romanorum / Rebecca Krug.
Summary 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.
Note Print version record.
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Middle Ages.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Knowledge -- Middle Ages.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. (OCoLC)fst00029048
English literature -- Medieval influences.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
English literature -- Medieval influences. (OCoLC)fst00912107
Middle Ages. (OCoLC)fst01020301
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Added Author Perry, Curtis.
Watkins, John, 1960-
Other Form: Print version: Shakespeare and the Middle Ages. 1st ed. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780199558179 0199558175 (DLC) 2009001824 (OCoLC)294885631
Standard No. 9786612268649
ISBN 9780191569715 (electronic bk.)
0191569712 (electronic bk.)
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