Shakespeare and the Middle Ages Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings |
|
| Editor:
| Driver, Martha W.
Ray, Sid |
| Foreword by:
| Almereyda, Michael
Matthews, Dakin |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7864-3405-3 |
| Publication Date: | May 2009 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
|
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $39.95USD $4.00 |
Book Description:
|
Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright's medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works.
Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright's medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works.