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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... scene in Bosnia , we should say what Shakespeare , in Henry V , had the French noble say as he looked down at the shattered field of Agincourt : ' Shame and eternal shame , nothing but shame ! ' Here Shakespeare's Henry Vis invoked as a ...
... scene , on grounds of the structural coherence of the plot , and emends the text accordingly . Justification for drastic editorial revision here , in other words , boils down to the fact that ( as Taylor sees it ) this scene is ...
... scene of the play , the closing scenes of Henry V direct the dramatic spotlight onto the issue of royal lineage . Henry's elaborate naming of the French royal house as his close kin ( brother , sister , cousin ) contrasts starkly with ...
... scenes . Throughout this final scene such language is consistently juxtaposed with the terminology of peace treaty and contractual rights exacted under duress . His private wooing over , Henry negotiates his bride - to - be's acquisi ...
... scene in which Henry woos Kate . As part of the dramatist's strategic plan for shifting the audience's attention from warfare to wooing , Shakespeare alters both history and his source and tacitly erases the legitimate French heir . In ...
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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 |