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

Shakespeare lived his professional life amid the London streets and died a prominent figure in the town of Stratford. 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. 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, and explains why England's metropolis becomes the fractured Rome of tragedy.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
Release date:	September 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	J. Archer
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	211
Edition:	2005 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-6666-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
LSN:	1-4039-6666-4
Barcode:	9781403966667

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