Citizen Shakespeare

Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays

By:

J Archer

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Hardback

Series:

Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700

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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.

Author Biography:

JOHN MICHAEL ARCHER is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, USA.

Release date Australia

September 6th, 2005

Author

J Archer

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Undergraduate

Illustrations

XII, 211 p.

Pages

211

Series

Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700

Dimensions

140x216x17

ISBN-13

9781403966667

Product ID

5885312

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