Lisa Jardine

Reading Shakespeare Historically

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780415134903
• ISBN-10: 0415134900
• Artikelnr.: 22245442

Autorenporträt

Lisa Jardine is Dean of Arts and Professor of English at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Her many publications include Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare and Erasmus, Man of Letters. She is a regular presenter for BBC Radio.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 'Why Should He Call Her Whore?'
Chapter 2 'No Offence I' Th' World'
Chapter 3 Cultural Confusion and Shakespeare's Learned Heroines
Chapter 4 Twins and Travesties
Chapter 5 Reading and the Technology of Textual Affect
Chapter 6 Alien Intelligence
Chapter 7 Companionate Marriage Versus Male Friendship
Chapter 8 Unpicking the Tapestry
Chapter 9 Conclusion