Shakespeare's Medieval Craft : Remnants of the Mysteries on the London Stage.
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SHAKESPEARE'S MEDIEVAL CRAFT -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Toward a Renaissance Culture of Medieval Artifacts -- 2. The Chester Banns: A Sixteenth-Century Perspective on the Mysteries -- 3. Balaam to Bottom: A Sixteenth-Century Translation -- 4. "Then Is Doomsday Near": Hamlet, the Last Judgment, and the Place of Purgatory -- 5. "Here's a Knocking Indeed!" Macbeth and the Harrowing of Hell -- Epilogue: Riding the Banns beyond Shakespeare -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare's plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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