Shakespeare and tyranny : regimes of reading in Europe and beyond / / edited by Keith Gregor

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 822.33
• Soggetto topico: Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 16th century; Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century
• Persona (resp. second.): GregorKeith
• Note generali: "Best represented by L. C. Knights's assertion in his 1957 Shakespeare Lecture to the British Academy: "Shakespeare, like the great majority of his fellow-countrymen, 'had no politics"' (Knights 1979, 152)."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• Sommario/riassunto: This book brings together a selection of essays on the reception and dissemination of Shakespeare's plays in England and beyond from the 17th century to the present. Written from the perspective of a nation or cluster of nations in which Shakespeare has been used either to reflect, legitimize or challenge different versions of authoritarian rule, each of the chapters offers a picture of Shakespeare as unwitting commentator on some of the most significant and unsettling political events in Eur...
• Titolo autorizzato: Shakespeare and tyranny
• ISBN: 1-4438-6770-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820807303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II