Matthew Woodcock provides a survey of the critical responses to this popular play, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide summarises and assesses key interpretations, setting them in their intellectual and historical context.
Matthew Woodcock provides a survey of the critical responses to this popular play, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth c...
The borderline between the periods commonly termed -medieval- and -Renaissance-, or -medieval- and -early modern-, is one of the most hotly, energetically and productively contested faultlines in literary history studies. The essays presented in this volume both build upon and respond to the work of Professor Helen Cooper, a scholar who has long been committed to exploring the complex connections and interactions between medieval and Renaissance literature. The contributors re-examine a range of ideas, authors and genres addressed in her work, including pastoral, chivalric romance, early...
The borderline between the periods commonly termed -medieval- and -Renaissance-, or -medieval- and -early modern-, is one of the most hotly, energetic...
