Shakespeare, Elizabeth and Ivan

The Role of English-Russian Relations in Love's Labours Lost

Rima Greenhill (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2024
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8482-6 (ISBN)

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Argues that Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost’s French surface conceals a Russian core. The book outlines a comprehensive interpretation of the play that is rooted in diplomatic and trade relations between Russia and Elizabethan England during the dramatic decades following England’s discovery of a northern trade route to Muscovy in 1553.

Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labour's Lost has perplexed scholars and theatergoers alike for over 400 years due to its linguistic complexity, obscure topical allusions and decidedly non-comedic ending. According to traditional scholarly interpretations, it is Shakespeare's "French" play, based on events and characters from the French Wars of Religion.

This work argues that the play's French surface conceals a Russian core. It outlines a comprehensive interpretation of Love's Labour's Lost that is rooted in diplomatic and trade relations between Russia and Elizabethan England during the dramatic decades following England's discovery of a northern trade route to Muscovy in 1553. Drawing on original research of 16th-century sources in English, Latin and French, the text also surveys Russian sources that have been previously unavailable in translation. This analysis provides new explanations for some of the play's previously most enigmatic elements, such as its unconventional ending, the significance of its secondary characters, linguistic anomalies and the Masque of the Muscovites itself.

Rima Greenhill is a senior lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University.

Table of Contents
Timeline: Historical Events in England, Russia and Europe, 1530–1649
Preface
Introduction
Part I—Love's Labors: Mary, Elizabeth and Ivan, 1553–1584
1. Seasick Coming from Muscovy
2. What Buys Your Company?
3. The Ambassadors of Love
4. The Armipotent Mars
5. The Empress of Muscovy
6. The Soldier, the Clown and the Wench
Part II—Labors Lost: Elizabeth and Godunov, 1584–1598
7. The Curate, the Pedant and the Boy
8. A Feast of Languages
9. Heirs of All Eternity
10. The Pageant of the Nine Worthies
Epilogue: You This Way, We That Way
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.03.2023
Zusatzinfo	29 photos
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 224 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-4766-8482-0 / 1476684820
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8482-6 / 9781476684826
Zustand	Neuware