Shakespeare's Liminal Spaces
Contesting Authority on the Early Modern Stage
Seiten
2024
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6592-3 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6592-3 (ISBN)
Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare’s forests, battlefields, shores and gardens are revealed as deliberate dramatic devices with the capacity to destabilise social structures. -- .
This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to reflect concurrent cartographic, geopolitical and social anxieties. In seeking to expose the dynamics and fluctuations of power on the stage, Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare’s forests, battlefields, shores and gardens are revealed as deliberate dramatic devices with the capacity to destabilise social structures. Haworth’s nuanced consideration of these spaces reveals that they were ideally suited to the staging of social frictions as he traces the shifting balance of power between opposing ideological standpoints and the internal struggles between an emergent subjectivity and conformity with the centralised authorities of Church and Court. -- .
This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to reflect concurrent cartographic, geopolitical and social anxieties. In seeking to expose the dynamics and fluctuations of power on the stage, Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare’s forests, battlefields, shores and gardens are revealed as deliberate dramatic devices with the capacity to destabilise social structures. Haworth’s nuanced consideration of these spaces reveals that they were ideally suited to the staging of social frictions as he traces the shifting balance of power between opposing ideological standpoints and the internal struggles between an emergent subjectivity and conformity with the centralised authorities of Church and Court. -- .
Ben Haworth is a Lecturer of Early Modern Literature at Nottingham Trent University -- .
Prologue
1. In search of the liminal: The theoretical landscapes of power
2. Between ocean and land: ‘The guiled shore to a most dangerous sea’
3. Subversive sylvan settings: Dark humours and the theatrical forest
4. Corrupted Eden: The liminal garden and cultures of resistance
5. Theatres of war: Shakespeare’s ideological battlefields
Bibliography
Conclusion
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.07.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 4 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-6592-9 / 1526165929 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-6592-3 / 9781526165923 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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