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Shakespeare: Out of Court

Dramatizations of Court Society

J Turner author G Holderness author N Potter author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:26th Oct '90

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This book examines six plays by Shakespeare (Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest) as dramatizations of the Renaissance court in its developing history - a history searched by Shakespeare to disclose its most characteristic gains and losses. For these plays do not simply celebrate Tudor and Stuart rule: they scrutinize it too, in the centre of its institutional theatre of power, the court. This book shows how, if the plays came into the court, the court also came into the plays, with its most salient features - its competitiveness, its inner tensions and its contradictions, its language, its cultural life and its entertainments - exposed to the scrutiny of an art-form that proved itself to be a new mode of historical understanding.

ISBN: 9781349208838

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 360g

266 pages

1st ed. 1990