{"product_id":"shakespeares-foreign-worlds-national-and-transnational-identities-in-the-elizabethan-age-paperback-softback-9780801477980","title":"Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds; National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age (Paperback \/ softback) 9780801477980","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShakespeare's Foreign Worlds\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNational and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarole Levin (Author), John Watkins (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801477980\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 December 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 1.4 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sense of discovery and surprise, alive in Levin and Watkins's presentation, gives the reader the old-fashioned pleasure of a detective story and, more important, makes tangible the historical specificities and stakes involved in the social constructions of gender and race that haunt immigration policies and globalization strategies in the EU and the US. In doing so, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Foreign Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e powerfully de-essentializes those constructions.... This book stands at the beginning of a sea change in the enactment of interdisciplinarity.\u003c\/p\u003e - Marguerite Waller (Modern Language Quarterly) \u003cp\u003eThis interdisciplinary book, which comprises pairs of essays on \u003ci\u003e1 Henry VI\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew\u003c\/i\u003e, exemplifies new historicism at its best.... The essays are beautifully written, cogently argued, and meticulously researched. Recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility\u003c\/b\u003e. Shakespeare's plays bear the marks of exile and exploration, rural depopulation, urban expansion, and shifting mercantile and diplomatic configurations. He fills his plays with characters testing the limits of personal identity: foreigners, usurpers, outcasts, outlaws, scolds, shrews, witches, mercenaries, and cross-dressers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough parallel discussions of Henry VI, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, Levin and Watkins argue that Shakespeare's centrality to English national consciousness is inseparable from his creation of the foreign as a category asserting dangerous affinities between England's internal minorities and its competitors within an increasingly fraught European mercantile system. As a women's historian, Levin is particularly interested in Shakespeare's responses to marginalized sectors of English society. As a scholar of English, Italian Studies, and Medieval Studies, Watkins situates Shakespeare in the context of broadly European historical movements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTogether Levin and Watkins narrate the emergence of the foreign as portable category that might be applied both to \"strangers\" from other countries and to native-born English men and women, such as religious dissidents, who resisted conformity to an increasingly narrow sense of English identity. Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds will appeal to historians, literary scholars, theater specialists, and anyone interested in Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52542156800280,"sku":"9780801477980","price":18.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/shakespeares-foreign-worlds-national-and-transnational-identities-in-the-elizabethan-age-paperback-softback-9780801477980","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}