Citizen Shakespeare

Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays
2005. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-349-52970-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 211 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

Reihe: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

Shakespeare was not a citizen of London. But the language of his plays is shot through with the concerns of London 'freemen' and their wives, the diverse commercial class that nevertheless excluded adult immigrants from country towns and northern Europe alike. This book combines London historiography, close reading, and recent theories of citizen subjectivity to demonstrate for the first time that Shakespeare's plays embody citizen and alien identities despite their aristocratic settings. Through three chapters, the book points out where the city shadows the country scenes of the major comedies, shows how London's trades animate the 'civil butchery' of the history plays, ans explains why England's metropolis becomes the fractured Rome of tragedy,

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Archer, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Comedy: Civil Sayings History: Civil Butchery Tragedy: What Rome?

Über Autor(innen)

John Michael Archer is Professor of English at New York University, USA.