Margaret Tudeau-Clayton

Shakespeare's Englishes

Against Englishness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Claims that Shakespeare resists an emergent, exclusionary post-reformation ideology of 'true' Englishness in his early plays.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781108493734
• ISBN-10: 1108493734
• Artikelnr.: 56875398

Autorenporträt

Margaret Tudeau-Clayton is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the Université de Neuchatel, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Shakespeare and cultural reformation ideology; 2.
Shakespeare and 'the King's English': language, history, power; 3.
Shakespeare and 'the true-born Englishman': 'theatre' and the ideology of
national character; 4. 'they bring in straing rootes': Shakespeare and 'the
straingers case'; 5. Figures and parables of a 'straing' word:
Shakespeare's 'extravagancy'.