Shakespeare and the Medieval World.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- TEXTUAL NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Shakespeare's Medieval World -- Remembered worlds -- Continuities -- The shape of life -- The shape of death -- The world of language -- Chapter Two: Total Theatre -- Remembering the religious drama -- Shakespeare and the cycle plays -- Chapter Three: Staging the Unstageable -- Presenting the play -- Immaterial beings -- Imagining place -- Time -- Chapter Four: The Little World of Man -- Language and personification -- Man and the universe -- Moral interludes and dramatic structure -- Dumbshows, emblems and allegorical action -- Three types: king, shepherd and fool -- Chapter Five: The World of Fortune -- The falls of great men -- Tragedies from the medieval world -- Chapter Six: Romance, Women and the Providential World -- Heroines, inheritance and happy endings -- Beyond the natural -- The last plays -- Pericles -- Chapter Seven: Shakespeare's Chaucer -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- A note on Bottom and the ass -- Troilus and Cressida -- The Two Noble Kinsmen -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

A unique study examining the influence of medieval culture, thinking and drama on Shakespeare's work, looking at his use of sources and the ways in which the traditions of medieval drama permeate his plays.

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