Michael J Redmond

Shakespeare, Politics, and Italy

Intertextuality on the Jacobean Stage

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Building on a theoretical framework offered in the first chapter, this study examines the ideological repercussions of the staging of the Italian scene in prominent works by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Marlowe. By focusing on the self-conscious, overt rehearsal of existing texts and genres, Michael J. Redmond argues that these plays represent the political conflicts of Jacobean England within the context of previous writing about the crises of Cinquecento Italy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780754662518
• ISBN-10: 0754662519
• Artikelnr.: 57047054

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Redmond teaches at the University of Palermo, Italy and is a former Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Sussex, England. He has published several articles and book chapters on the cultural politics of intertextuality in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Politics of Intertextuality; Chapter 2 'You are
better read than I': Rereading the Italianate Englishman; Chapter 3 'And
let them know that I am Machiavel': Staging Italian Political Theory for
the London Audience; Chapter 4 'I have my dukedom got': Shakespeare and the
Evolution of the Italianate Disguised Ruler Play; Chapter 5 'No more a
Britain': James I, Jachimo, and the Politics of Xenophobia in Cymbeline;