Shakespeare's Medieval Craft : : Remnants of the Mysteries on the London Stage / / Kurt A. Schreyer.
In Shakespeare’s Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 9 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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