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EBOOK Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191609671
EAN: A71F30B8EB
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Stron: 312
Data wydania: 2009
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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 hiscontemporaries 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 readstexts 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.

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