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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817126703321

Autore

Hopkins Lisa <1962->

Titolo

Shakespeare on the edge : border-crossing in the tragedies and the Henriad / / Lisa Hopkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., c2005

ISBN

1-281-09750-0

9786611097509

0-7546-8177-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Historical drama, English - History and criticism

Boundaries in literature

Islands in literature

Tragedy

Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) In literature

Welsh Borders (England and Wales) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-149) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The marches: Henry IV and Henry V -- The coast: Hamlet -- The border: Macbeth -- Islands: Othello -- The edge: King Lear.

Sommario/riassunto

England's land borders with Scotland and Wales, together with the narrow channels separating the British mainland from Ireland and the Continent, were the focus of acute, if intermittent, unease during the early modern period. This book analyses works by not only Shakespeare but also his contemporaries to argue that many of the plays of Shakespeare's central period, from the second tetralogy to Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello, engage with the idea of England's borders.