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Shakespeare's liminal spaces : contesting authority on the early modern stage / Ben Haworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haworth, Ben, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Settings.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Space in literature.
- Authority in literature.
- Liminality in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.) : 4 illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to reflect concurrent cartographic, geopolitical and social anxieties. In seeking to expose the dynamics and fluctuations of power on the stage, Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare’s forests, battlefields, shores and gardens are revealed as deliberate dramatic devices with the capacity to destabilise social structures. Haworth’s nuanced consideration of these spaces reveals that they were ideally suited to the staging of social frictions as he traces the shifting balance of power between opposing ideological standpoints and the internal struggles between an emergent subjectivity and conformity with the centralised authorities of Church and Court.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1 In search of the liminal
- 2 Between ocean and land
- 3 Subversive sylvan settings
- 4 Corrupted Eden
- 5 Theatres of war
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2024)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9781526165930
- 1526165937
- OCLC:
- 1457220275
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