Citizen Shakespeare : Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays.
Title:
Citizen Shakespeare : Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays.
Author:
Archer, John Michael.
ISBN:
9781403981295
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (224 pages)
Series:
Early Modern Cultural Studies Series
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Preface for John Archer's Citizen Shakespeare: Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays -- Introduction -- 1 Comedy: Civil Sayings -- 2 History: Civil Butchery -- 3 Tragedy: What Rome? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Citizen Shakespeare combines recent historiography with the close analysis of language to show how the subjectivities of the London citizen and the immigrant city-dweller unexpectedly pervade the full range of Shakespeare's drama despite the overt aristocratic settings and concerns many of his plays share.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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