Shakespeare and Cultural Traditions: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Tokyo, 1991"The lectures delivered by the four plenary speakers of the congress are published here: Stephen Greenblatt's groundbreaking paper on witchcraft and Macbeth: Germaine Greer's perceptive analysis of the presence of the proletariat in Shakespeare's plays: Ruth Nevo's intriguing exploration of Freudian perspectives on Hamlet; and Takashi Sasayama's important comparative study of tragedy and emotion in Shakespeare and Chikamatsu. This volume also includes papers by other Shakespearean scholars of international reputation, offering fresh insights into many topics of interest. Among them are John Russell Brown on "Shakespeare's Plays and Traditions of Playgoing"; Sukanta Chaudhuri on "Shakespeare and the Ethnic Question"; Werner Habicht on the German Shakespeare tradition; Alexander Leggatt on bearbaiting; Avraham Oz on The Merchant of Venice; Annabel Patterson and Taming of the Shrew; and Gary Taylor on "Bardicide."" "Taken together, the essays collected in Shakespeare and Cultural Traditions constitute a remarkable range of responses to Shakespeare's enduring art and offer a truly international and multicultural assessment of his presence in the world today."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... lives of the poor are as at least as dramatic and unmanageable as the lives of the rich ; nowadays those gentlemen of the universities known as anthro- pologists sometimes choose ( or are obliged ) to live among the really poor for many ...
... lives of the poor are as at least as dramatic and unmanageable as the lives of the rich ; nowadays those gentlemen of the universities known as anthro- pologists sometimes choose ( or are obliged ) to live among the really poor for many ...
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... live - in servants had to have rooms of their own , hundreds of thousands of live - in servants were turned out of their employ- ers ' houses and reemployed as dailies . Instead of sleeping on a mat in the kitchen , they now sleep on ...
... live - in servants had to have rooms of their own , hundreds of thousands of live - in servants were turned out of their employ- ers ' houses and reemployed as dailies . Instead of sleeping on a mat in the kitchen , they now sleep on ...
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... live , comes to this unexpected decision , voiced in paradoxical rhetoric , To sue to live , I find I seek to die And seeking death , find life . ( 3.1.42-43 ) but soon afterwards , however , he returns to his former fearful attitude ...
... live , comes to this unexpected decision , voiced in paradoxical rhetoric , To sue to live , I find I seek to die And seeking death , find life . ( 3.1.42-43 ) but soon afterwards , however , he returns to his former fearful attitude ...
Contents
List of Contributors | 9 |
Shakespeare and Bearbaiting | 43 |
Popular Rebellion Utopia | 76 |
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