Citizen Shakespeare: Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays

ISBN-13: 9781349529704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 211 str.

John Michael Archer; J. Archer

Opis

"Citizen Shakespeare" combines recent historiography with the close analysis of language to show how the subjectivities of the London citizen and the immigrant city-dweller unexpectedly pervade the full range of Shakespeare's drama despite the overt aristocratic settings and concerns many of his plays share.

Spis treści

Introduction Comedy: Civil Sayings History: Civil Butchery Tragedy: What Rome?

O autorze

John Michael Archer is Professor of English at New York University, USA.