Research Catalog

Title

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages : essays on the performance and adaptation of the plays with medieval sources or settings / edited by Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray ; foreword by Michael Almereyda and Dakin Matthews.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Driver, Martha W.
• Ray, Sid, 1966-

Description

viii, 276 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices/emphases the Shakespeare it values. Shakespeare himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. Examines his medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. Analyze the ways our understanding of medieval life has been influenced by Shakespeare's plays"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Middle Ages
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Sources
• English literature > Medieval influences
• Civilization, Medieval, in literature

Genre/Form

Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to Part I / Martha W. Driver -- "Richard's Himself Again": The Body of Richard III on Stage and Screen / Jim Casey -- Falstaff in America / Catherine Loomis -- Scoring the Fields of the Dead: Musical Styles and Approaches to Postbattle Scenes from Henry V (1944,1989) / Linda K. Schubert -- Introduction to Part II / Martha W. Driver -- "We're Everyone You Depend On": Filming Shakespeare's Peasants / Carl James Grindley -- Medieval Hamlet in Performance / Patrick J. Cook -- Finding Gruoch: The Hidden Genealogy of Lady Macbeth in Text and Cinematic Performance / Sid Ray -- Introduction to Part III / Sid Ray -- Reading A Midsummer Night's Dream through Middle English Romance / Martha W. Driver -- "Chaucer.. the Story Gives": Troilus and Cressida and The Two Noble Kinsmen / Julia Ruth Briggs -- Shakespeare's Virgin Mother on the Modern Stage: All's Well, That Ends Well and the Madonna del Parto Tradition / Gary Waller -- Introduction to Part IV / Sid Ray -- "The Quick and the Dead": Performing the Poet Gower in Pericles / Kelly James -- Shakespeare as Medievalist: What It Means for Performing Pericles / R. F. Yeager -- A Touch of Chaucer in The Winter's Tale / Louise M. Bishop -- Caliban's God: the Medieval and Renaissance Man in the Moon/ Kim Zarins.

ISBN

• 9780786434053 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786434058 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009010123

OCLC

• 316327161
• SCSB-11621016

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library