Writing Russia in the Age of Shakespeare - Daryl W. Palmer

Writing Russia in the Age of Shakespeare

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Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26646-9 (ISBN)
62,30 inkl. MwSt
This study commences with a simple question: how did Russia matter to England in the age of William Shakespeare? In order to answer the question, the author studies stories of Lapland survival, diplomatic envoys, merchant transactions, and plays for the public theaters of London. At the heart of every chapter, Shakespeare and his contemporaries are seen questioning the status of writing in English, what it can and cannot accomplish under the influence of humanism, capitalism, and early modern science. The phrase 'Writing Russia' stands for the way these English writers attempted to advance themselves by conjuring up versions of Russian life. Each man wrote out of a joint-stock arrangement, and each man's relative success and failure tells us much about the way Russia mattered to England.

Daryl W. Palmer is Associate Professor of English at Regis University, Denver, USA. He is the author of Hospitable Performances (1992) and articles dealing with early modern literature that have appeared in journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly and ELH.

Contents: Preface; Inventing the venture: England and Russia at mid-century; Ivan IV, Elizabeth I, and the dispatch of Anthony Jenkinson; Writing the envoy: William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost and the reasons against reading; Writing large: the case of Jerome Horsey, individualist; Writing ardor: the submissions of Giles Fletcher; 'With the Emperor of Russia': subjection and withdrawal in William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure; Imperial tyranny and the daughter's seclusion in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale; The King's Men's version of Muscovy: John Fletcher's The Loyal Subject; Epilogue: knowledge, permutation, and John Tradescant's Roses; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in European Cultural Transition
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Dramatik / Theater
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-138-26646-9 / 1138266469
ISBN-13 978-1-138-26646-9 / 9781138266469
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