Format:
xiv, 264 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780198806899
Content:
Shakespeare and the Politics of Commoners' is a highly original contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare's plays. It breaks important new ground in introducing readers, lay and scholarly alike, to the existence and character of the political culture of the mass of ordinary commoners in Shakespeare's England, as revealed by the recent findings of 'the new social history'. The volume thereby helps to challenge the traditional myths of a non-political commons and a culture of obedience. It also brings together leading Shakespeareans, who digest recent social history, with eminent early modern social historians, who turn their focus on Shakespeare. This genuinely cross-disciplinary approach generates fresh readings of over ten of Shakespeare's plays and locates the impress on Shakespearean drama of popular political thought and pressure in this period of perceived crisis. The volume is unique in engaging and digesting the dramatic importance of the discoveries of the new social history, thereby resituating and revaluing Shakespeare within the social depth of politics
Note:
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Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Fitter, Christopher, 1955 - Shakespeare and the politics of commoners New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017 ISBN 9780191846557
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Drama
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England
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Gesellschaft
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Politisierung
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Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/shakespeare-and-the-politics-of-commoners-9780198806899
Author information:
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
