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Book Shakespeare and Chaucer Examinations

Download or read book Shakespeare and Chaucer Examinations written by William Taylor Thom and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination papers by pupils of Hollins Institute, Virginia.

Book A Blessed Shore

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  • Author : Alfred Thomas
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780801445682
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book A Blessed Shore written by Alfred Thomas and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although Thomas gives original readings of famous English texts by Chaucer and Shakespeare, this is also a book about Czech writers and travelers; one Czech expatriate, Anne of Bohemia, became Queen of England. For both countries these were decades of religious and dynastic turbulence, and Thomas's analyses of the relations between Wyclif and Hus, Lollards and Hussites, help us to understand why Bohemia was viewed as an almost utopian land of refuge ("a blessed shore" on which a ship might wash up) for persecuted English men and women. Of particular interest is his analysis of the ways in which English court culture emulated that of Prague, which was an imperial seat at a time when England was still a peripheral place with little influence on the heart of Europe.

Book Error in Shakespeare

Download or read book Error in Shakespeare written by Alice Leonard and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional view of Shakespeare’s mastery of the English language is alive and well today. This is an effect of the eighteenth-century canonisation of his works, and subsequently Shakespeare has come to be perceived as the owner of the vernacular. These entrenched attitudes prevent us from seeing the actual substance of the text, and the various types of error that it contains and even constitute it. This book argues that we need to attend to error to interpret Shakespeare’s disputed material text, political-dramatic interventions and famous literariness. The consequences of ignoring error are especially significant in the study of Shakespeare, as he mobilises the rebellious, marginal, and digressive potential of error in the creation of literary drama.

Book Chaucer to Shakespeare

Download or read book Chaucer to Shakespeare written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare

Download or read book Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare written by Alex Davis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the king's forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at night by fears of falling; a seventeenth-century noblewoman who commissions copies upon copies of her genealogy; Elizabethan efforts to eradicate Irish customs of succession; thoughts of the legacy of sin bequeathed to mankind by our first parents, Adam and Eve. This book explores how inheritance was imagined between the lifetimes of Chaucer and Shakespeare. The writing composed during this period was the product of what the historian Georges Duby has called a 'society of heirs', in which inheritance functioned as a key instrument of social reproduction, acting to ensure that existing structures of status, wealth, familial power, political influence, and gender relations were projected from the present into the future. In poetry, prose, and drama--in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and his Canterbury Tales; in Spenser's Faerie Queene; in plays by Shakespeare such as Macbeth, As You Like It, and The Merchant of Venice; and in a host of other works--we encounter a range of texts that attests to the extraordinary imaginative reach of questions of inheritance between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Moving between the late medieval and early modern periods, Imagining Inheritance examines this body of writing in order to argue that an exploration of the ways in which premodern inheritance was imagined can make legible the deep structures of power that modernity wants to forget.

Book Shakespeare s Hamlet

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  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1881
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare s Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chaucer to Shakespeare

Download or read book Chaucer to Shakespeare written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare s Chaucer

Download or read book Shakespeare s Chaucer written by Ann Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare

Download or read book A Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare written by William Sidney Walker and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Canterbury Tales

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  • Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1853
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 662 pages

Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shakespeare expositor

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  • Author : Thomas Keightley
  • Publisher : London : J. Russel Smith
  • Release : 1867
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 494 pages

Download or read book The Shakespeare expositor written by Thomas Keightley and published by London : J. Russel Smith. This book was released on 1867 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Virginia State Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the Virginia State Library written by Virginia State Library and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chaucer

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  • Author : Marion Turner
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-09-22
  • ISBN : 0691210152
  • Pages : 626 pages

Download or read book Chaucer written by Marion Turner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.

Book Reading the Allegorical Intertext

Download or read book Reading the Allegorical Intertext written by Judith H. Anderson and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith H. Anderson conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. Like the Internet, the intertext is a state, or place, of potential expressed in ways ranging from deliberate emulation to linguistic free play. Relatedly, the intertext is also a convenient fiction that enables examination of individual agency and sociocultural determinism. Anderson’s intertext is allegorical because Spenser’s Faerie Queene is pivotal to her study and because allegory, understood as continued or moving metaphor, encapsulates, even as it magnifies, the process of signification. Her title signals the variousness of an intertext extending from Chaucer through Shakespeare to Milton and the breadth of allegory itself. Literary allegory, in Anderson’s view, is at once a mimetic form and a psychic one—a process thinking that combines mind with matter, emblem with narrative, abstraction with history. Anderson’s first section focuses on relations between Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, including the role of the narrator, the nature of the textual source, the dynamics of influence, and the bearing of allegorical narrative on lyric vision. The second centers on agency and cultural influence in a variety of Spenserian and medieval texts. Allegorical form, a recurrent concern throughout, becomes the pressing issue of section three. This section treats plays and poems of Shakespeare and Milton and includes two intertextually relevant essays on Spenser. How Paradise Lost or Shakespeare’s plays participate in allegorical form is controversial. Spenser’s experiments with allegory revise its form, and this intervention is largely what Shakespeare and Milton find in his poetry and develop. Anderson’s book, the result of decades of teaching and writing about allegory, especially Spenserian allegory, will reorient thinking about fundamental critical issues and the landmark texts in which they play themselves out.

Book Examination Papers

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  • Author : University of Bombay
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 678 pages

Download or read book Examination Papers written by University of Bombay and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: