Shakespeare And The Medieval Tradition
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Shakespeare And The Medieval Tradition
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Author : J. Paul McRoberts
language : en
Publisher: Scholarly Title
Release Date : 1985
Shakespeare And The Medieval Tradition written by J. Paul McRoberts and has been published by Scholarly Title this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shakespeare And The Medieval Tradition
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Author : J. P. MacRoberts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Shakespeare And The Medieval Tradition written by J. P. MacRoberts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
Shakespeare Catholicism And The Middle Ages
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Author : Alfred Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-06-18
Shakespeare Catholicism And The Middle Ages written by Alfred Thomas and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The English Clown Tradition From The Middle Ages To Shakespeare
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Author : Robert Hornback
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2013
The English Clown Tradition From The Middle Ages To Shakespeare written by Robert Hornback and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Drama categories.
From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissance when the famed "license" of fooling was effectively revoked. This groundbreaking survey of clown traditions in the period looks both at their history, and reveals their hidden cultural contexts and legacies; it has far-reaching implications not only for our general understanding of English clown types, but also their considerable role in defining social, religious and racial boundaries. It begins with an exploration of previously un-noted early representations of blackness in medieval psalters, cycle plays, and Tudor interludes, arguing that they are emblematic of folly and ignorance rather than of evil. Subsequent chapters show how protestants at Cambridge and at court, during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward, patronised a clownish, iconoclastic Lord of Misrule; look at the Elizabethan puritan stage clown; and move on to a provocative reconsideration of the Fool in King Lear, drawing completely fresh conclusions. Finally, the epilogue points to the satirical clowning which took place surreptitiously in the Interregnum, and the (sometimes violent) end of "licensed" folly. Professor ROBERT HORNBACK teaches in the Departments of Literature and Theatre at Oglethorpe University.
Shakespeare And The Middle Ages
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Author : Curtis Perry
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-05-07
Shakespeare And The Middle Ages written by Curtis Perry and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 S Medieval Craft
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Author : Kurt A. Schreyer
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-30
Shakespeare S Medieval Craft written by Kurt A. Schreyer 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 2014-07-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Shakespeare And The Medieval World
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Author : Helen Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-26
Shakespeare And The Medieval World written by Helen Cooper and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Mediaeval Dimension In Shakespeare S Plays
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Author : Peter Milward
language : en
Publisher: Lewiston/Queenston : E. Mellen Press
Release Date : 1990
The Mediaeval Dimension In Shakespeare S Plays written by Peter Milward and has been published by Lewiston/Queenston : E. Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Civilization, Medieval, in literature categories.
This collection of essays covers such topics as: Shakespeare's medieval inheritance; the Homiletic tradition in Hamlet; and a theology of grace in the Winter's Tale.
Shakespeare And The Middle Ages
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Author : Martha W. Driver
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
Shakespeare And The Middle Ages written by Martha W. Driver and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Courtship In Shakespeare
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Author : William G. Meader
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-05-01
Courtship In Shakespeare written by William G. Meader and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with categories.