Strangers and pilgrims : from the Castle of perseverance to King Lear / Edgar Schell

Schell, Edgar

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1983. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #447262
ISBN: 0226736733

Physical description; ix, 214 pages ; 23 cm. Contents; Introduction: On the imitation of action and the pilgrimage of life -- The Pilgrim in the castle -- Scio ergo sumus: the marriage of wit and science -- Richard II and the Imago regis -- Volpone in the land of unlikeness -- The skeptical traveler: King Lear and the end of the pilgrimage. Subjects; Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. Morality plays in English, 1400-1625 - Critical studies.

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