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Shakespeare on masculinity

By William , Shakespeare , William; Wells , Robin Headlam; Shakespeare

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0-521-66204-4, 9780521662048, 9780511009570, 0511009577, 9780511033643, 0511033648
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1311137 bytes)
Pages
249\261
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Shakespeare on Masculinity is an important and original study of the way Shakespeare's plays engage with a subject that provoked bitter public dispute. Robin Headlam Wells argues that Shakespeare took a skeptical view of the militant-Protestant cult of heroic masculinity. Following a series of brilliant portraits of the dangerously charismatic warrior-hero, Shakespeare turned at the end of his writing career to a different kind of leader. Plays receiving close readings include The Tempest, Henry V, Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus

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