Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare and Early English Drama
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare and Early English Drama
By (Author) Daisy Black
Edited by Katharine Goodland
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
4th September 2024
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
822.33
Physical Properties
Hardback
352
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Description
A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval afterlives brings new insight to the ways in which peoples in the sixteenth century understood, manipulated and responded to the history of their performance spaces, stage technologies, characterisation and popular dramatic tropes. In doing so, this volume advocates for a new understanding of sixteenth-seventeenth century theatre makers as highly aware of the medieval traditions that formed their performance practices, and audiences who recognised and appreciated the recycling of these practices between plays.
Author Bio
Daisy Black is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton
Katharine Goodland is a Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.
