Citizen Shakespeare : Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays / by J. Archer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Archer, John Michael.

Series:

Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700, 2634-5900

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

European literature.

Poetry and Poetics.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

Local Subjects:

Poetry and Poetics.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shakespeare was not a citizen of London. But the language of his plays is shot through with the concerns of London 'freemen' and their wives, the diverse commercial class that nevertheless excluded adult immigrants from country towns and northern Europe alike. This book combines London historiography, close reading, and recent theories of citizen subjectivity to demonstrate for the first time that Shakespeare's plays embody citizen and alien identities despite their aristocratic settings. Through three chapters, the book points out where the city shadows the country scenes of the major comedies, shows how London's trades animate the 'civil butchery' of the history plays, ans explains why England's metropolis becomes the fractured Rome of tragedy,.

Contents:

Editor's preface for John Archer's citizen Shakespeare : freemen and aliens in the language of the plays

1. Comedy : civil sayings

2. History : civil butchery

3. Tragedy : what Rome?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611364885

9781281364883

1281364886

9781403981295

1403981299

OCLC:

314843703