Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England
- Author / Editor
- McMullan, Gordon, and David Matthews, eds.
Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 287 pp.
- Description
- Twelve essays by individual authors, with an introduction by the editors that discusses modern England's ambivalent fascination with the Middle Ages, including, briefly, Shakespeare and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen" - an adaptation of Chaucer's KnT. Other topics range widely, addressing drama, reading, editorial practice, religious reform, and ideas of nationhood. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England under Alternative Title.
- Contributor
- Matthews, David, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Knight and His Tale.