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Reading Shakespeare Historically

By Lisa Jardine

Book information

Year
1996
ISBN
9780203993774, 9780415134897, 0415134897
LCC
PR3024 .J37 1996
Open Library ID
OL799260M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1527203 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
224\216
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. Charting ten years of critical development, these challenging, witty essays shed new light on Renaissance studies. It also raises intriguing questions about how the culture and history of the past illuminates the key social and political issues of today. Lisa Jardine re-reads Renaissance drama in its historical and cultural context, from laws of defamation in Othello to the competing loyalties of companionate marriage and male friendship in The Changeling. In doing so she reveals a wealth of new insights, sometimes surprising but always original and engrossing. At the same time, these essays also provide a fascinating account of the rise of feminist scholarship since the 1980s and the diversifying of `new historicist' approaches over the same period.

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