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Citizen Shakespeare - Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)
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Citizen Shakespeare - Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)
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,
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