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Shakespeare and the Middle Ages : essays on the performance and adaptation of the plays with medieval sources or settings

"Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices/emphases the Shakespeare it values. Shakespeare himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. Examines his medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. Analyze the ways our understanding of medieval life has been influenced by Shakespeare's plays"--Provided by publisher
eBook, English, ©2009
McFarland & Co., Jefferson, N.C., ©2009
Sources
1 online resource (viii, 276 pages) : illustrations
9780786491650, 9781283455794, 9786613455796, 0786491655, 128345579X, 6613455792
775362442
pt. 1. "Abstract and brief chronicles of time" : the histories
pt. 2. "Carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts" : the tragedies
pt. 3. "Many merry men" : the comedies
pt. 4. "Tragical-comicalhistorical-pastoral" : the romances
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