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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4450429, member: 110350&quot;]1616 happens to be the year Shakespeare died.&nbsp; (His birth and death years were drummed into me for life by an 8th grade teacher.)&nbsp; This is the first time I&#039;ve heard anyone imply that he should be classified as a medieval writer, in the same category as, say, William Langland or the Gawain Poet.&nbsp; Even Malory, who died more than 45 years before Shakespeare was born, is usually thought of as late medieval at best, given that, after all, he wrote in Modern English, easily readable if not for the spelling.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess my mindset on the subject was also formed by reading (most of!) Johan Huizinga&#039;s <i>The Waning of the Middle Ages</i> (first published in Dutch in 1919) -- about France and the Netherlands in the 14th and 15th centuries -- back in college, more decades ago than I care to admit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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