Reading Shakespeare Historically

Name: Reading Shakespeare Historically
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ISBN: 9780203993774

ISBN-10: 0203993772

ISBN-13: 9780203993774

Edition: 1996

Authors: Lisa Jardine

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Book details

List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 7/26/2005
Pages: 216
Language: English

Lisa Jardine is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.



Introduction



'Why should he call her whore?': Defamation and Desdemona's case



'No offence i' th' world': Unlawful marriage in Hamlet



Cultural confusion and Shakespeare's learned heroines: 'These are old paradoxes'



Twins and travesties: Gender, dependency and sexual availability in Twelfth Night



Reading and the technology of textual affect Eramus's familiar letters and Shakespeare's King Lear



Alien intelligence: Mercantile exchange and knowledge transactions in Marlowe's Jew of Malta



Companionate marriage versus male friendship: Anxiety for the lineal family in Jacobean drama Coda: Unpicking the tapestry - The scholar of women's history as Penelope among her suitors


Conclusion: What happens in Hamlet?


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