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Chaucer To Shakespeare
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language : en
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Release Date : 1953
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Shakespeare S Chaucer
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Author : Ann Thompson
language : en
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Release Date : 1978
Shakespeare S Chaucer written by Ann Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Drama categories.
Chaucer To Shakespeare 2 Cassettes
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Imagining Inheritance From Chaucer To Shakespeare
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Author : Alex Davis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-02-13
Imagining Inheritance From Chaucer To Shakespeare written by Alex Davis and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-13 with Drama categories.
Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the king's forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at night by fears of falling; a seventeenth-century noblewoman who commissions copies upon copies of her genealogy; Elizabethan efforts to eradicate Irish customs of succession; thoughts of the legacy of sin bequeathed to mankind by our first parents, Adam and Eve. This book explores how inheritance was imagined between the lifetimes of Chaucer and Shakespeare. The writing composed during this period was the product of what the historian Georges Duby has called a 'society of heirs', in which inheritance functioned as a key instrument of social reproduction, acting to ensure that existing structures of status, wealth, familial power, political influence, and gender relations were projected from the present into the future. In poetry, prose, and drama--in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and his Canterbury Tales; in Spenser's Faerie Queene; in plays by Shakespeare such as Macbeth, As You Like It, and The Merchant of Venice; and in a host of other works--we encounter a range of texts that attests to the extraordinary imaginative reach of questions of inheritance between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Moving between the late medieval and early modern periods, Imagining Inheritance examines this body of writing in order to argue that an exploration of the ways in which premodern inheritance was imagined can make legible the deep structures of power that modernity wants to forget.
Chaucer To Shakespeare 1337 1580
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Author : Sunhee Kim Gertz
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2001
Chaucer To Shakespeare 1337 1580 written by Sunhee Kim Gertz and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the 250 years introduced here, literature reflects key transitions, embedded as it is in far-reaching political, religious, and socio-economic transformations. This volume tracks some of the resulting tensions in various genres, especially those that re-integrate or respond to the traditional. Such literature is examined by using the tools of rhetoric and semiotics, interpreting from the author-audience axis and focusing on dissonant markers in canonical as well as in lesser well-known narratives. SunHee Kim Gertz looks at the history and culture of the era in order to contextualize the work she examines, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,The Book of Margery Kempe, Le Morte D'Arthur and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Offering a refreshing new perspective on a period of rich literary output, that students often find difficult to engage, this will prove a welcome guide and critical companion.
The Literary Imagination
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Author : Derek Traversi
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1982
The Literary Imagination written by Derek Traversi and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays collected in this book include two each on Dante and Chaucer that appear for the first time in print and three on Shakespeare that are based on Dr. Traversi's Approach to Shakespeare. Dante's Purgatorio, Chaucer's the Franklin's Tale, and Shakespeare's the Tempest are among the texts analyzed here.
The French Fetish From Chaucer To Shakespeare
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Author : Deanne Williams
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-11-18
The French Fetish From Chaucer To Shakespeare written by Deanne Williams and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Deanne Williams traces the cultural legacy of the Norman Conquest in England from 1350 to 1600.
From Chaucer S Pardoner To Shakespeare S Iago
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Author : Maik Goth
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2009
From Chaucer S Pardoner To Shakespeare S Iago written by Maik Goth and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Iago (Fictitious character) categories.
In The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages the American critic Harold Bloom claims that Shakespeare drew on Chaucer's Pardoner when creating the villain Iago for his Othello. This book turns Bloom's observation of influences within the canon of Western literature into a more complex intermedial analysis of dramatic and literary traditions at the waning of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the Renaissance. The discussion of verbal and non-verbal codes in Chaucer's presentation of the Pardoner and Shakespeare's depiction of Iago sheds light on the various strands of the Vice's development, and shows that Chaucer's pilgrim, who descends obliquely from the stage Vices, stands at the very beginning of the Vice tradition, while Iago is a late development of him, who adapts his role to new dramatic challenges.
A Blessed Shore
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Author : Alfred Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2007
A Blessed Shore written by Alfred Thomas and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
"Although Thomas gives original readings of famous English texts by Chaucer and Shakespeare, this is also a book about Czech writers and travelers; one Czech expatriate, Anne of Bohemia, became Queen of England. For both countries these were decades of religious and dynastic turbulence, and Thomas's analyses of the relations between Wyclif and Hus, Lollards and Hussites, help us to understand why Bohemia was viewed as an almost utopian land of refuge ("a blessed shore" on which a ship might wash up) for persecuted English men and women. Of particular interest is his analysis of the ways in which English court culture emulated that of Prague, which was an imperial seat at a time when England was still a peripheral place with little influence on the heart of Europe.
More Personal Journeys
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Author : Peter Fiore
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2005
More Personal Journeys written by Peter Fiore and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume contains six personal essays on six prominent classic authors written for the average reader who is minimally familiar with the authors, probably just heard of them by name, and would like an introduction to these literary figures and their works. The authors have been carefully chosen: two, Chaucer and Shakespeare, are primarily poets; two, Augustine and Newman, are primarily churchmen; and two, Chesterton and Greene, are primarily masters of prose. All six, however, are master craftsmen and have made an enormous contribution to world culture. The underlying argument of the book is that the authors' Christian faith gave impetus to their creative output. Although all the observations about the authors and their works are fully researched and based on Professor Fiore's years as professor and critic, a conscious effort has been made to avoid esoteric research problems, and their consequent footnotes, in an effort to present a readable and intimate approach to the writers. The book is ideal for the general reader, the undergraduate student, and the lover of great literature. The first chapter of the book entitled "Geoffrey Chaucer" presents a survey of the poet's life taking into consideration that records are few in terms of biographical information. Chaucer is seen as representative of that increasingly important middle class that was constantly infiltrating the aristocracy. He lived in a world that knew no reformation, no puritanism, jansenism, no victorianism. He was a product of a totally medieval Roman Catholic England. The early poems are given consideration here and "The Canterbury Tales," his masterpiece, is given fuller treatment. The pilgrims are described and the tales are discussed. Special consideration is given to the pilgrims whom posterity has seen as unique creations: the affected Madame Eglantyne and her "Prioress' Tale," the haughty Chanticleer and the "Nun's Priest Tale," the bawdy Wife of Bath and her tale about marital fidelity. The chapter concludes that Chaucer, who wrote in many genres, gave a loving and often hilarious picture of the many social types living in England at the time; he is deservedly considered the "Father of English Literature." The chapter on "William Shakespeare" again discusses the poet's life taking into consideration that the records are scarce in terms of biographical information. The chapter discusses life in England at the time, the state of the theater in London, and the poet's experimenting with the sonnet form, the result being some of the most beautiful poetry in the English language. All the plays are covered giving compact descriptions of plots and characters. Further into the chapter, plays and passages from plays are analyzed as reflecting the Christian tradition in which the poet wrote. The chapter concludes that the poet was a far more responsible husband and father than posterity has made him out to be, an enterprising and astute business man, who, likewise, was the greatest writer in the history of England. The chapter on "Augustine of Hippo" gives a survey of the Father's life, his promiscuous early years, his grappling with various philosophical and theological schools of thought, his conversion to Catholic Christianity, and his life and ministry as Bishop of Hippo. His two major works are given full treatment, "The Confessions" and "The City of God." "The Confessions," a work that has inspired thousands of thinkers and writers down through the ages and has provided source material for many works of literature, is seen as a true spiritual autobiography. "The City of God," which inspired Aquinas, Bonaventure, and most of the great theologians through the centuries, contains all of the dogmatic teachings of the Christian Church, that is, the Fall of Man, the Fall of Angels, the Incarnation, Redemption, and Salvation. The chapter on "John Henry Newman" establishes the fact that Newman as a Cardinal was the true precursor of the Second Vatican Coun