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Radical Shakespeare - Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,459
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Radical Shakespeare - Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career (Hardcover): Chris Fitter

Radical Shakespeare - Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career (Hardcover)

Chris Fitter

Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

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This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing aesthetic traditions of later centuries, have together obscured the consistent subversiveness of his work. Traditionally, Shakespeare's political attitudes have been construed either as primarily conservative, or as essays in richly imaginative ambiguation, irreducible to settled viewpoints. Fitter contends that government censorship forced superficial acquiescence upon Shakespeare in establishment ideologies ? monarchic, aristocratic and patriarchal ? that were enunciated through rhetorical set pieces, but that Shakespeare the dramatist learned from Shakespeare the actor a variety of creative methods for sabotaging those perspectives in performance in the public theatres. Using historical contextualizations and recuperation of original performance values, the book argues that Shakespeare emerged as a radical writer not in middle age with King Lear and Coriolanus ? plays whose radicalism is becoming widely recognized ? but from his outset, with Henry VI and Taming of the Shrew. Recognizing Shakespeare's allusiveness to 1590s controversies and dissident thought, and recovering the subtextual politics of Shakespeare's distinctive stagecraft reveals populist, at times even radical meaning and a substantially new, and astonishingly interventionist, Shakespeare.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
Release date: October 2011
First published: 2012
Authors: Chris Fitter
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-89793-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
LSN: 0-415-89793-9
Barcode: 9780415897938

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