Service and Dependency in Shakespeare's Plays - Couverture rigide

Weil, Judith

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521844053 ISBN 13 : 9780521844055

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Weil Judith

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This is an unusual study of the nature of service and other types of dependency and patronage in Shakespeare's drama. By considering the close associations of service with childhood or youth, marriage and friendship, Judith Weil sheds light on social practice and dramatic action. Approached as dynamic explorations of a familiar custom, the plays are shown to demonstrate a surprising consciousness of obligations, and a fascination with how dependants actively change each other. They help us understand why early modern people may have found service both frightening and enabling. Attentive to a range of historical sources, and social and cultural issues, Weil also emphasises the linguistic ambiguities created by service relationships, and their rich potential for interpretation on the stage. The book includes close readings of dramatic sequences in twelve plays, including Hamlet, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear.

Revue de presse :

'An ... imaginative and unusual book, unusually well written ... The book entertainingly and impressively negotiates the terrain between the plays and their circumambient culture.' Shakespeare Survey 59

Review of the hardback: 'Weil's study provides impressively detailed readings of the vocabulary, imagery and characteristic problems of service in Shakespeare's plays and engages a broad range of the contemporary intertexts. The author also draws from a valuable depth of literary scholarship as well as from social history and historical sociology. [This book] offers important new perspectives on Shakespeare's plays and the institutions of early modern service, especially in its emphasis on the varied forms and fears of agency and servility that such service allowed and provoked.' Renaissance Quarterly

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521844053
• ISBN 13: 9780521844055
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224