Shakespeare’s histories and counter-histories - Softcover

 
9780719070754: Shakespeare’s histories and counter-histories
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719070759 ISBN 13: 9780719070754
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Shakespeare’s history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works and their relationship to their political and cultural context. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dermot Cavanagh is Lecturer in English at the University of Edinburgh

Stuart Hampton-Reeves is Principal Lecturer in English and Drama at the University of Central Lancashire

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Shakespeare's history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By exploring the diversity of Shakespeare's engagement with history in all its forms, these contributors open up a range of new interpretive possibilities for understanding the way history 'plays' with the past.

The book is divided into three sections: Memory and mourning, Counter-histories, Identity and performance. In each section, leading theorists, historicists and performance critics offer fresh perspectives on the key issues that are transforming our understanding of Shakespeare. These include: gender and violence, the mapping of Britain, cultural memory and religion.

This collection will appeal to all critically engaged readers of Shakespeare. In particular it will command wide-ranging interest from undergraduates, postgraduates, academic researchers and students of early modern theatre, history and culture.

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Shakespeare's history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By exploring the diversity of Shakespeare s engagement with history in all its forms, these contributors open up a range of new interpretive possibilities for understanding the way history plays with the past.The book is divided into three sections: Memory and mourning, Counter-histories, Identity and performance. In each section, leading theorists, historicists and performance critics offer fresh perspectives on the key issues that are transforming our understanding of Shakespeare. These include: gender and violence, the mapping of Britain, cultural memory and religion.This collection will appeal to all critically engaged readers of Shakespeare. In particular it will command wide-ranging interest from undergraduates, postgraduates, academic researchers and students of early modern theatre, history and culture.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719070759
ISBN 13 
9780719070754
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Herausgeber
Cavanagh Dermot, Longstaffe Stephen, Hampton-Reeves Stuart
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