Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings
- Author / Editor
- Driver, Martha W., and Sid Ray, eds.
Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings
- Published
- Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009.
- Physical Description
- vii, 276 pp.
- Description
- Thirteen essays, plus several introductory commentaries, gauge Shakespeare's uses of medieval materials and how those materials are reflected in modern stage and film adaptations. Shakespeare's "medievalism" shapes modern notions of the Middle Ages. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Shakespeare and the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
- Contributor
- Ray, Sid, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.