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Zusatztext Together the essays give fresh consideration to precisely articulated specific aspects of continuity and discontinuity between the medieval and the early modern in a wide range of Shakespeare's work. Informationen zum Autor Curtis Perry is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. In addition to numerous articles on early modern English literature and culture he is the author of The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice (1997) and Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England (2006), and the editor of Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2001) and of Eros and Power in English Renaissance Drama: Five Plays by Marlowe, Davenant, Massinger, Ford, and Shakespeare (2008).John Watkins is Professor of English, Medieval Studies, and Italian Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Specter of Dido: Spenser and the Virgilian Epic Tradition (1995) and Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England: Literature, History, Sovereignty (2002). With Carole Levin, he is the author of Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age (2009). He is currently Associate Editor of The Journal of British Studies. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations and Texts Introduction Part 1: Texts in Transition 1: Christopher Warley: Shakespeare's Fickle Fee-Simple: A Lover's Complaint, Nostalgia, and the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism 2: Sarah Beckwith: Shakespeare's Resurrections 3: Elizabeth Fowler: Towards a History of Performativity: Sacrament, Social Contract, and The Merchant of Venice 4: John Watkins: Losing France and Becoming England: Shakespeare's King John and the Emergence of State-Based Diplomacy Part 2: Medievalism in Shakespearean England 5: Patrick Cheney: The Voice of the Author in 'The Phoenix and Turtle': Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser 6: William Kuskin: Recursive Origins: Print History and Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2 7: Brian Walsh: Chantry, Chronicle, Cockpit: Henry V and the Forms of History 8: Curtis Perry: 'For they are Englishmen': National Identities and the Early Modern Drama of Medieval Conquest Part 3: Shakespeare and the Resources of Medieval Culture 9: Michael O'Connell: King Lear and the Summons of Death 10: Karen Sawyer Marsalek: Marvels and Counterfeits: False Resurrections in the Chester Antichrist and Henry IV, Part 1 11: Rebecca Krug: Shakespeare's Medieval Morality: The Merchant of Venice and the Gesta Romanorum Bibliography ...
