Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds : : National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age /

Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds : : National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age / / John Watkins, Carole Levin.

In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare's p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Levin, Carole,
Watkins, John,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Gender, Punishment, and Peace-Making in 1 Henry VI
  • 1. "Murder not then the fruit within my womb"
  • 2. Shakespeare's 1 Henry VI and the Tragedy of Renaissance Diplomacy
  • Part II: Aliens in Our Midst: Jews, Italians, and Wary Englishmen in The Merchant of Venice
  • 3. Converting the Daughter
  • 4. Shakespeare and the Decline of the Venetian Republic
  • Part III: Dangerous Reading in The Taming of the Shrew
  • 5. Many Different Kates
  • 6. Shakespeare and the Women Writers of the Veneto
  • Afterword
  • Index

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