Medieval Afterlives - Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare and Early English Drama

This book shows how early drama traditions were transformed, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval Afterlives offers insight into how sixteenth-century people understood and adapted performance spaces, stage technologies, characterisation, and popular dramatic tropes.

About the author

Daisy Black is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton

Katharine Goodland is a Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, CUNY

Product details

• Authors: Daisy (Lecturer in English) Goodland Black
• Assisted by: Daisy Black (Editor), Daisy (Lecturer in English) Black (Editor), Katharine Goodland (Editor), Katharine (Professor) Goodland (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781526172136
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-7213-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean