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Kurt A. Schreyer - Shakespeare's Medieval Craft - 9780801452901 - V9780801452901
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Shakespeare's Medieval Craft

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Description for Shakespeare's Medieval Craft Num Pages: 280 pages, 9, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; DSBB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 524.

In Shakespeare’s Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city’s cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects—as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors—to the Shakespearean stage.

As Schreyer shows, the Chester ... Read more

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Product Details

Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801452901
SKU
V9780801452901
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-83

About Kurt A. Schreyer
Kurt A. Schreyer is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Reviews for Shakespeare's Medieval Craft
Shakespeare's Medieval Craft makes a substantial contribution to the growing number of studies on the continuing influence of the mystery plays on Elizabethan theatre. Kurt Schreyer’s approach is both original and illuminating.... Schreyer’s large argument about the importance of spectacle, of things on both the pageant wagons and the public stage, and their capacity to transmit significance into a new ... Read more

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