The custom of the castle : from Malory to Macbeth /

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Auteur principal: Ross, Charles Stanley
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1997.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8306152
Table des matières:
  • 1. The French model: Introduction
  • Malory's weeping castle
  • 2. The Italian transition: Boiardo's castle cruel
  • Ariosto's fable of power
  • 3. The English conclusion: Spenser's customs of courtesy
  • Hamlet's ghost fear
  • Macbeth's future: "a thing of custom"
  • Epilogue: the disappearing castle.