Essaying Shakespeare / / Karen Newman

• Autore: Newman Karen <1949->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 822.3/3
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-188) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Myrrha's revenge: Ovid and Shakespeare's reluctant Adonis -- Hayman's missing Hamlet -- Renaissance family politics and Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew -- And wash the ethiop white: femininity and the monstrous in Othello -- Portia's ring: gender, sexuality, and theories of exchange in The merchant of Venice -- Ghostwriting: Hamlet and Claude Chabrol's Ophilia -- Englishing the other: Le tiers exclu and Shakespeare's Henry V -- Cultural capital's gold standard: Shakespeare and the critical apostrophe in Renaissance studies -- Charactery -- Sartorial economies and suitable style: the anonymous woodstock and Shakespeare's Richard II -- French Shakespeare: Dryden, Vigny's Othello, and British cultural expansion.
• Sommario/riassunto: For more than twenty-five years, Karen Newman has brought her critical acumen to bear on early modern studies. In this collection of her essays on Shakespeare-some acknowledged classics and others never before published-Newman shows how changing theoretical trends have shaped Shakespeare studies, from new historicism and gender studies to critical race studies and globalization.Central to Newman's work is social exchange, or the circulation of people and objects. At least two of these essays have had a powerful and lasting impact on Shakespeare studies: "Renaissance Family Politics and Shakesp
• Titolo autorizzato: Essaying Shakespeare
• ISBN: 0-8166-6809-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812772103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II