{"product_id":"medieval-shakespeare-pb","title":"Medieval Shakespeare PB","description":"\u003cp\u003eMedieval Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003eRuth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland (Editors)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new perspectives on Shakespeare and his medieval heritage. Separated into four parts, the collection explores Shakespeare and his work in the context of the Middle Ages, medieval books and language, the British past, and medieval conceptions of drama and theatricality, together showing Shakespeare's work as rooted in late medieval history and culture. Insisting upon Shakespeare's complexity and medieval multiplicity, Medieval Shakespeare gives readers the opportunity to appreciate both Shakespeare and his period within the traditions that fostered and surrounded him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers a far-ranging series of approaches to Shakespeare's use of medieval material, from original and modern performance practices to ideas of language, religion and nation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChallenges received ideas of the Middle Ages as a sudden divide marked by Shakespeare and argues that Shakespeare appears as a late medieval or transition figure, not as the ancestor of modernity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrings readers up to date on some of the most innovative work in current Shakespeare studies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplores dramatic and linguistic cultures in unusual breadth and depth, broadening readers' appreciation of the culture of the early modern world and its shaping\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaperback: 278 pages\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781107559523\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 15.21 x 1.6 x 22.91 cm\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57090891612538,"sku":"10004569","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2393\/5815\/files\/MedievalShakespearePB.png?v=1784559257","url":"https:\/\/shop.rsc.org.uk\/products\/medieval-shakespeare-pb","provider":"The RSC shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}