Identity, otherness and empire in Shakespeare's Rome / edited by Maria Del Sapio Garbero.
"Contributors to this collection delve into the relationship between Rome and Shakespeare. They view the presence of Rome in Shakespeare's plays not simply as an unquestioned model of imperial culture, or a routine chapter in the history of literary influence, but rather as the problematic...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2009.
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| Series: | Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series.
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| Summary: | "Contributors to this collection delve into the relationship between Rome and Shakespeare. They view the presence of Rome in Shakespeare's plays not simply as an unquestioned model of imperial culture, or a routine chapter in the history of literary influence, but rather as the problematic link with a distant and foreign ancestry which is both revered and ravaged in its translation into the terms of the Bard's own cultural moment. During a time when England was engaged in constructing a rhetoric of imperial nationhood, the contributors demonstrate that Englishmen used Roman history and the classical heritage to mediate a complex range of issues, from notions of cultural identity and gender to the representation of systems of exchange with Otherness in the expanding ethnic space of the nation."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780754666486 (alk. paper) 0754666484 (alk. paper) |