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Shakespeare's play within play : medieval imagery and scenic form in Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear
- Title
- Shakespeare's play within play : medieval imagery and scenic form in Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear / by Cherrell Guilfoyle ; foreword by Clifford Davidson.
- Author
- Guilfoyle, Cherrell.
- Publication
- Kalamazoo, Mich. : Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990.
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- Description
- xi, 159 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This volume details the "medieval dramatic and narrative imagery which Shakespeare would unavoidably have been familiar with and which came naturally to hand as he set about constructing his new-fashioned plays." The author maintains that although Shakespeare's works were considered cutting edge at the time, Shakespeare incorporated and wove his own experiences and also the sensibilities of what was then contemporary culture into his now famous works.
- Series Statement
- Early drama, art, and music monograph series ; 12
- Uniform Title
- Early drama, art, and music monograph series ; 12.
- Subject
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Tragedies
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Dramatic production
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Knowledge and learning
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- 1500-1599
- Literature
- Medievalism > England > History > 16th century
- Middle Ages in literature
- Figures of speech
- Criticism and interpretation
- Medievalism
- Theater
- England
- Figures of speech
- 16th century
- Middle Ages in literature
- Dramatic production
- Literature
- Tragedies
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-154) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also issued online.
- Contents
- "Ower swete sokor" : The role of Ophelia in Hamlet -- The beginning of Hamlet -- King Hamlet's two successors -- A kind of vengeance : images of classical and divine vengeance in Hamlet -- Othello, Otuel, and the English Charlemagne romances -- "Lead to the sagittary" : victim and predator in Othello -- Mactacio Desdemonae : medieval scenic form in the last scene of Othello -- The way to Dover : Arthurian imagery in King Lear -- "The redemption of King Lear."
- ISBN
- 0918720346
- 9780918720344
- 0918720354
- 9780918720351
- LCCN
- 90192070
- OCLC
- ocm22249894
- 22249894
- SCSB-2778372
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries