Reading Shakespeare HistoricallyReading 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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Lisa Jardine. Reading Shakespeare Historically Lisa Jardine ROUTLEDGE READING SHAKESPEARE HISTORICALLY Lisa Jardine is one of the most. Front Cover.
Lisa Jardine. READING SHAKESPEARE HISTORICALLY Lisa Jardine R ROUTLEDGE London and New York First published 1996 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane ,
... Shakespeare Historically / Lisa Jardine . Includes bibliographical references and index . 1. Shakespeare , William , 1564-1616- Political and social views . 2. Shakespeare , William , 1564-1616 - Contemporary England . 3. Literature and ...
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... SHAKESPEARE'S LEARNED HEROINES : These are old paradoxes ' viii 1 19 35 48 4 TWINS AND TRAVESTIES : Gender , dependency and sexual availability in Twelfth Night 65 5 READING AND THE TECHNOLOGY OF TEXTUAL AFFECT : Erasmus's familiar ...
Contents
Desdemonas case | 19 |
Unlawful marriage in Hamlet | 35 |
CULTURAL CONFUSION AND SHAKESPEARES LEARNED | 48 |
Gender dependency and sexual | 65 |
READING AND THE TECHNOLOGY OF TEXTUAL | 78 |
Mercantile exchange and knowledge | 98 |
The scholar of womens history | 132 |
What happens in Hamlet? | 148 |