Bernard Shaw's Marriages And Misalliances (bernard Shaw And His Contemporaries)

A Companion to Chaucer and his Contemporaries provides a detailed introduction to medieval culture, broadly considered.

This original study explores a vital aspect of early modern cultural history: the way that warfare is represented in the theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The book contrasts the Tudor and Stuart prose that called for the establishment of a standing army in the name of nation, discipline and subjectivity, and the drama of the period that invited critique of this imperative. Barker examines contemporary dramatic texts both for their radical position on war and, in the case of the later drama, for their subversive commentary on an emerging idealisation of Shakespeare and his work.