This book throws new light on the issue of the dramatist's religious orientation by dismissing sectarian and one-sided theories, tackling the problem from the angle of the variegated Elizabethan context recently uncovered by modern historians and theatre scholars. It is argued that faith was a quest rather than a quiet certainty for the playwright.

This wide-ranging collection of essays, written by leading specialists, furnishes previously unpublished evidence of France's role and importance in the early modern English literary and dramatic fields. Its chapter-length introduction offers an up-to-date critical presentation of the issues involved: representation, cultural identity, the construction of otherness, Frenchness, and the social and cultural dynamics of theater. The essays in the five sections of the book continue the debate with a series of in-depth studies touching on important critical themes such as intertextuality; old and...

Dramaturge dont l uvre est la plus jouee en France, Shakespeare est egalement un auteur a dimension mondiale, dont les textes sont le terrain par excellence ou les critiques de tous bords viennent tester leurs theories. Ce livre analyse l impact des theories postmodernistes et poststructuralistes sur le domaine des etudes litteraires, et plus particulierement sur celui des etudes shakespeariennes. Loin des dogmes, et sans sombrer dans le passeisme, l ouvrage cherche a depasser quelques-unes des apories theoriques actuelles et a dessiner un chemin critique dont le but ultime est de renouveler...