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Manchester University Press,, Manchester :
This volume brings together three little-known works by key playwrights from the late sixteenth-century golden age of English drama. All three convey the public theatre's fascination with travel and adventure through the popular genre of heroic...
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Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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This volume brings together three little-known works by key playwrights from the late sixteenth-century golden age of English drama. All three convey the public theatre's fascination with travel and adventure through the popular genre of heroic romance, while reflecting the contemporaries' wide range of responses to cross-cultural contacts with the Muslim East and the Mediterranean challenges posed by the Ottoman empire. The volume presents the first modern-spelling editions of the three plays, with extensive annotations catering for specialised scholars while also making the texts accessible to students and theatre-goers. A detailed introduction discusses issues of authorship, dates and sources, and sets the plays in their historical and cultural contexts, offering exciting insights on Elizabethan performance strategies, printing practices, and the circulation of knowledge and stereotypes related to ethnic and religious difference.
The comical history of Alphonsus, King of Aragon / by Robert Greene The tragedy of Soliman and Perseda / by Thomas Kyd The four prentices of London / by Thomas Heywood.
Publisher:
Manchester University Press, Manchester
This book draws on the work of the British sculptor Antony Gormley alongside more traditional literary scholarship to argue for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others. Chaucer's playfulness with textual history and chronology...
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Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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This book draws on the work of the British sculptor Antony Gormley alongside more traditional literary scholarship to argue for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others. Chaucer's playfulness with textual history and chronology anticipates how his own work is figured in later (and earlier) texts. Conventional models of source and analogue study are re-energised to reveal unexpected, and sometimes unsettling, literary cohabitations and re-placements. The author presents innovative readings of relationships between medieval texts and early modern drama, and between literary
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index.
Cover; Transporting Chaucer ; Contents; List of plates; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Transporting Chaucer; 1 The figure in the Canterbury stained glass: Chaucerian Beckets; 2 Crossing borders: Northumberland bodies unbound; 3 Chaucer's hands; 4 'Wrinkled deep in time': Emily and Arcite in A Midsummer Night's Dream; 5 Bones and bays: on with The Knight's Tale; 6 Reverberate Troy: sounding The House of Fame in Troilus and Cressida; 7 Da capo; Select bibliography; Index
