Margaret Tudeau-Clayton

This England, That Shakespeare (eBook, PDF)

New Angles on Englishness and the Bard
Redaktion: Maley, Willy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Is Shakespeare English, British, neither or both? Addressing from various angles the relation of the national poet/playwright to constructions of England and Englishness, this collection of essays explores the interplay of nation and imagination, first through new readings of particular plays, then through analyses of a range of subsequent appropriations and reorientations of 'Shakespeare' and 'this England' that the plays - in part - produced.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317010579
• Artikelnr.: 44782631

Autorenporträt

Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is editor, with Philip Schwyzer, of Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly (Ashgate, 2010). Margaret Tudeau-Clayton is Professor of English and Head of Department at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland; she is author of Jonson, Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil (1998; pbk 2006)

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: 'To England send him': repatriating Shakespeare
Willy Maley and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton; Part 1 This England: Pericles and the language of national origins
Thomas Roebuck and Laurie Maguire; 'And bloody England into England gone': empire
monarchy and nation in King John
Willy Maley; The 'true-born Englishman': Richard II
The Merchant of Venice
and the future history of (the) English
Margaret Tudeau-Clayton; 'Eat a leek': Welsh corrections
English conditions
and British cultural communion
Allison M. Outland; 'O
lawful let it be/That I have room ... to curse awhile': voicing the nation's conscience in female complaint in Richard III
King John and Henry VIII
Alison Thorne. Part 2 That Shakespeare: Imagining England: contemporary encodings of 'this sceptred isle'
Sarah Grandage; Shakespeare Eurostar: Calais
the Continent
and the operatic fortunes of Ambroise Thomas
Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo; 'Not a man from England': assimilating the exotic 'other' through performance
from Henry IV to Henry VI
Amanda Penlington; A nation of selves: Ted Hughes's Shakespeare
Neil Corcoran; Shakespeare-land
Graham Holderness; Afterword: one of those days in England
Andrew Hadfield; Works cited; Index.