Reading Shakespeare HistoricallyRoutledge, 26.07.2005 - 216 Seiten 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. Reading Shakespeare Historically will fascinate and provoke students of shakespeare and his historical age, and general readers with an urge to understand how the culture and history of our past illuminates the key scoial and political issues of today. |
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... ' memorable ' quotation : it is not a familiar Shakespearean tag , nor even a passage from a much anthologised soliloquy . Until our attention was drawn to it , we might never have recalled 4 READING SHAKESPEARE HISTORICALLY.
... attention to the ease with which he can continue to be conjured up as an emotional reference point . In particular , it can readily be argued that to claim Shakespeare as a cultural touchstone , a canonical text , in North America , is ...
... attention . And when we take up our conversation with the play text interrogating the lapses into silence produced by the accidents of the historical process the play itself responds with confirmation that this is indeed a vital theme ...
... attention here to the sleight of the drama- tist's hand . ' Consent ' to the marriage alliance between France and England blurs the blatant aggression of the seizure of France in a war fought on tenuous legal grounds . The audience's ...
... attention deftly on to French women . The stain of defeat to masculine honour is vividly captured by the prospect of carnal intercourse between the two nationalities an intercourse in which women carry the shame ( and blame ) as bearers ...
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Unlawful marriage in Hamlet | 35 |
CULTURAL CONFUSION AND SHAKESPEARES LEARNED | 48 |
Gender dependency and sexual | 65 |
READING AND THE TECHNOLOGY OF TEXTUAL | 78 |
Mercantile exchange and knowledge | 98 |
The scholar of womens history | 132 |
What happens in Hamlet? | 148 |