Screen LibraryStaged transgression in Shakespeare's England
Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage. These essays shed new light on issues...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Shakespeare studies
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137349354 |
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Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage. These essays shed new light on issues of gender, race, sexuality, law and politics. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137349347. |
| Carrier Form: | 312 p. |
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9781137349354 : 1137349352 : |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
| Contents: | List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Stages of Transgression-- Rory Loughnane 1. "On the most Eminent seate thereof is Gouernement Illustrated": staging power in the Lord Mayor's Show-- Tracey Hill 2. The Transgressive Stage Player-- William Ingram 3. "Ha, Ha, Ha": Shakespeare and the edge of laughter-- Adam Smyth 4. "Have we done aught amiss?": Transgression, Indirection and Audience Reception in Titus Andronicus-- Darragh Greene 5. The King's Three Bodies: Resistance Theory and Richard III-- Rob Carson 6. Marriage, Politics and Law in The Tragedy of Mariam and The Duchess of Malfi-- Christina Luckyj 7. Incapacitated Will-- Rebecca Lemon 8. Transgression Embodied: Medicine, Religion and Shakespeare's Dramatised Persons-- Thomas Rist 9. The Taming of the Jew: Spit and the Civilizing Process in The Merchant of Venice-- Brett D. Hirsch 10. 'Edgar I Nothing Am': Blackface in King Lear-- Benjamin Minor and Ayanna Thompson 11. Marrying the Dead: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline and The Tempest-- Lisa Hopkins 12. Speaking Out of Turn: Gender, Language and Transgression in Early Modern England-- Danielle Clarke 13. Rethinking Transgression with Shakespeare's Bawds-- Edel Semple 14. 'Nothing but pickled cucumbers': The Longing Wives of Middletonian City Comedy-- Celia R. Caputi 15. Lady Macbeth and Othello, Transgression and Convention in Early Modern Tragedy-- Andrew J. Power 16. "How to vse your Brothers Brotherly": Civility, Incivility and Civil War in 3 Henry VI-- Christopher Ivic Afterword-- Jean E. Howard Bibliography Index. |