Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Inaugural Lecture Delivered at the University of Cambridge, 29 April 2005
- Author / Editor
- Cooper, Helen.
Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Inaugural Lecture Delivered at the University of Cambridge, 29 April 2005
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Physical Description
- 38 pp.
- Description
- Explores the continuities of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, emphasizing the inventiveness of the Middle Ages and the rootedness of the Renaissance in medieval traditions, focusing on drama and on Shakespeare in particular. Recurrent references to Chaucer, especially Shakespeare's dependence on him.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.