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Shakespeare's Medieval Craft : Remnants of the Mysteries on the London Stage.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (277 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801455100
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shakespeare's Medieval CraftDDC classification:
  • 822/.0516
LOC classification:
  • PR2953.M54
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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