Shakespeare and Elizabethan Poetry
Shakespeare and Elizabethan Poetry
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Professor Bradbrook's subject in this study, which was first published by Cambridge in 1979, is no less than the relating of Shakespeare's work to the poetry, criticism and life of his age. Drawing upon a considerable body of evidence, she shows how Shakespeare was influenced by medieval thought, by classical sources, by the popular verse and the theatre of his day, and by the Elizabethan use of language. Professor Bradbrook then proceeds to examine some of his plays in detail; although not writing from the standpoint of any special theory, she includes several interpretations of plays - of All's Well that Ends Well for instance, and of Henry IV - which have proved influential.
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September 1979Paperback
9780521295284
290 pages
216 × 140 × 16 mm
0.37kg
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Table of Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: medieval and modern
- 2. The artifice of eternity: court poet of Elizabeth's reign
- 3. The web of being: Elizabethan poetic and the popular stages
- 4. The Ovidian romance
- 5. The flowing tide: Shakespeare and Elizabethan English
- 6. The mirror of nature: character in Shakespeare's plays
- 7. Moral heraldry: Titus Andronicus, Rape of Lucrece, Romeo and Juliet
- 8. Tragical-historical: Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II
- 9. The fashioning of a courtier: sonnets, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Midsummer Night's Dream
- 10. Polyphonic music: All's Well, Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing
- 9. Comical-historical: Henry IV, Henry V
- 12. Comical-fantastic: Love's Labour's Lost, As You Like It, Twelfth Night
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index.
