Citizen Shakespeare

Citizen Shakespeare
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9781403981295
ISBN-13 : 1403981299
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Book Synopsis Citizen Shakespeare by : J. Archer

Download or read book Citizen Shakespeare written by J. Archer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare was not a citizen of London. But the language of his plays is shot through with the concerns of London 'freemen' and their wives, the diverse commercial class that nevertheless excluded adult immigrants from country towns and northern Europe alike. This book combines London historiography, close reading, and recent theories of citizen subjectivity to demonstrate for the first time that Shakespeare's plays embody citizen and alien identities despite their aristocratic settings. Through three chapters, the book points out where the city shadows the country scenes of the major comedies, shows how London's trades animate the 'civil butchery' of the history plays, ans explains why England's metropolis becomes the fractured Rome of tragedy,


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'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in “a more realistic light”.' Times Literary Supplement Although Shakes