Shakespeare on the edge
border-crossing in the tragedies and the Henriad
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Author
Publication
2005 - Ashgate Pub., Aldershot, Hants, England, England
Language
English
Word Count
38,500 words, Guess
Page Count
154 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3300480M
- ISBN-100754637204
- OCLC Control Number57342326
- OCLC Control Numbershakespeareonedg0000hopk
- Library of Congress Control Number2004029539
and 1 more
- Goodreads200117
Classifications
- DDC822.3/3
- LCCPR2983 .H645 2005
Description
"This book analyses works by not only Shakespeare but also his contemporaries to argue that many of the plays of Shakespeare's central period, from the second tetralogy to Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello, engage with the idea of England's borders. But borders, it claims, are not only of geopolitical significance. In Shakespeare's imagination and indeed in that of his culture, eschatological overtones also accrue to the idea of the border. This is because the countries of the Celtic fringe were often discussed in terms of the supernatural and fairy lore and, in particular, the rivers which were often used as boundary markers were invested with heavily mythologized personae."--Jacket.
First Sentence
As a child, I lived in Wales but went to boarding school in Worcestershire.
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