Shakespeare and the Medieval World - Print on demand

Informationen zum Autor Helen Cooper is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. She was an undergraduate, research student and research fellow at Cambridge before being appointed as the first woman fellow at University College, Oxford, in 1978. She is the author of T he English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare . Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Cooper
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2010
• EAN: 9781904271789
• ISBN: 978-1-904271-78-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Arden Critical Companions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean