Revisionist Shakespeare : transitional ideologies in texts and contexts / Paul Cefalu.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Cefalu, Paul.

Contributor:

• Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Political and social views.
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
• Political and social views.
• Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.
• Politics and literature.
• Great Britain.
• History.
• Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.
• Literature and society--England--History--16th century.
• Literature and society.
• England.
• Literature and society--England--History--17th century.
• Political plays, English--History and criticism.
• Political plays, English.
• Social problems in literature.
• Politics in literature.

Physical Description:

212 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

"Revisionist Shakespeare" appropriates revisionist history in order to both criticize traditional transitional interpretations of Shakespearean drama and to offer a new methodology for understanding representations of social conflict in Shakespeare's plays and in Early Modern English culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-208) and index.

ISBN:

140396484X

OCLC:

54767788