Shakespeare and Wales

From the Marches to the Assembly

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Willy Maley

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Paperback / softback

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Shakespeare and Wales offers a 'Welsh correction' to a long-standing deficiency. It explores the place of Wales in Shakespeare's drama and in Shakespeare criticism, covering ground from the absorption of Wales into the Tudor state in 1536 to Shakespeare on the Welsh stage in the twenty-first century. Shakespeare's major Welsh characters, Fluellen and Glendower, feature prominently, but the Welsh dimension of the histories as a whole, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Cymbeline also come in for examination. The volume also explores the place of Welsh-identified contemporaries of Shakespeare such as Thomas Churchyard and John Dee, and English writers with pronounced Welsh interests such as Spenser, Drayton and Dekker. This volume brings together experts in the field from both sides of the Atlantic, including leading practitioners of British Studies, in order to establish a detailed historical context that illustrates the range and richness of Shakespeare's Welsh sources and resources, and confirms the degree to which Shakespeare continues to impact upon Welsh culture and identity even as the process of devolution in Wales serves to shake the foundations of Shakespeare's status as an unproblematic English or British dramatist.

Author Biography:

Willy Maley, Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. Philip Schwyzer is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Exeter, UK.

Release date Australia

November 11th, 2016

Author

Willy Maley

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Contributor

Edited by Philip Schwyzer

Pages

260

ISBN-13

9781138253605

Product ID

26585361

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