English Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Shakespeare - Literary Criticism, English Drama - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Medievalism, General & Miscellaneous Drama - Literary Criticism, Medieval Literature - Genera

Mankynde in Shakespeare

Name: Mankynde in Shakespeare
Author: Edmund Creeth
ISBN: 9780820338484

by Edmund Creeth

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Overview

In this study Edmund Creeth discovers an intimate, unique, and previously unsuspected kinship between three Shakespearean tragedies—Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear—and the three oldest extant theological dramas about Mankynde—The Castell of Perseverance, Wisdom Who Is Christ, and The Pride of Life. Creeth’s revolutionary discovery of parallels between the two sets of plays and his innovative method of studying these parallels suggest provocative new ways of looking at Shakespeare’s tragedies and constitute a major new direction in Shakespearean scholarship.

Synopsis

In this study Edmund Creeth discovers an intimate, unique, and previously unsuspected kinship between three Shakespearean tragedies--Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear--and the three oldest extant theological dramas about Mankynde--The Castell of Perseverance, Wisdom Who Is Christ, and The Pride of Life. Creeth's revolutionary discovery of parallels between the two sets of plays and his innovative method of studying these parallels suggest provocative new ways of looking at Shakespeare's tragedies and constitute a major new direction in Shakespearean scholarship.

About the Author, Edmund Creeth

Edmund Creeth (1928–1997) was a professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan. He is also the editor of Tudor Plays and Tudor Prose, 1513–1570.