This is Shakespeare

Smith, Emma (Emma Josephine) author

Overview

Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't really tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant, deflecting us from investigating the challenges of his inconsistencies and flaws. This electrifying new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex. It takes us into a world of politicking and copy-catting, as we watch him emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day; flirting with and skirting round the cut-throat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval and technological change. The Shakespeare in this book poses awkward questions rather than offering bland answers, always implicating us in working out what it might mean. This is Shakespeare. And he needs your attention.

• Publisher: Pelican, An Imprint of Penguin Books,Clays Ltd
• Subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Criticism and interpretation / English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism / English drama 17th century History and criticism
• ISBN: 9780241392157, 0241392152

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR 2976 .S65 2019	1	BOOK	GENERAL