Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare.

Author / Editor
Davis, Alex.

Title
Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare.

Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Physical Description
297 pp.; illus.

Description
Explores ho inheritance was imagined between the lifetimes of Chaucer and Shakespeare. Examines medieval writings, including CT and TC, and Renaissance writings, such as Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene" and William Shakespeare's "As You Like It," "Macbeth," and "The Merchant of Venice," to emphasize relationship between inheritance and "a range of themes including religion and the development of a world system of trade." Discusses issue of "trade and interest" in MLT.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General
Man of Law and His Tale