Shakespeare and the Medieval World

by Helen Cooper

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1408172321
• ISBN13: 9781408172322
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"