This remarkable volume challenges scholars and students to look
beyond a dominant European and North American 'metropolitan bank'
of Shakespeare knowledge. As well as revealing the potential for a
new understanding of Shakespeare's plays, Martin Orkin adopts a
fresh approach to issues of power, where 'proximations' emerge from
a process of dialogue and challenge traditional notions of
authority. readers have journeyed to one another across time and
space, to and from countless and always different historical,
geographical and ideological locations. Engagement with a
Shakespeare text always entails in part, then, cultural encounter
or clash, and readings are shaped by a reader's particular location
and knowledge. Part I of this book encourages us to recognise the
way in which 'local' or 'non-metropolitan' knowledges and
experiences might extend understanding of Shakespeare's texts and
their locations. Part II demonstrates the use of local as well as
metropolitan knowledges in exploring the presentation of
masculinity in Shakespeare's late plays. These plays themselves
dramatise encounters with different cultures and, crucially,
challenges to established authority. global capitalism and the
masculinist imperatives that drive it, Orkin's daring, powerful
work will have reverberations throughout, but also well beyond the
field of Shakespeare studies.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
June 2005 |
| First published: |
2005 |
| Authors: |
Martin Orkin
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| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
| Pages: |
220 |
| Edition: |
New ed |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-34879-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
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| LSN: |
0-415-34879-X |
| Barcode: |
9780415348799 |
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