Shakespeare, Love and Service - Couverture rigide

Schalkwyk, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521886392 ISBN 13 : 9780521886390

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Shakespeare, Love And ServicebyDavid Schalkwyk, 9780521886390, Cambridge University Press, Paperback, Paperback

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Peter Laslett's comment, in The World We Have Lost, that in the early modern period 'every relationship could be seen as a love-relationship' presents the governing idea of this book. In an analysis that includes Shakespeare's sonnets and a wide range of his plays from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter's Tale, David Schalkwyk looks at the ways in which the personal, affective relations of love are informed by the social, structural interactions of service. Showing that service is not a 'class' concept, but rather determined the fundamental conditions of identity across the whole society, the book explores the inter-penetration of structure and effect in relationships as varied as monarch and subject, aristocrat and personal servant, master and slave, husband and wife, and lover and beloved, in the light of differences of rank, gender and sexual identity.

Revue de presse :

"Well researched and written, this study shows that for Shakespeare, though freedom from service was nearly unimaginable, masters in his plays are often 'never so truly served as when opposed.' A compelling book...Recommended."
- A. DiMatteo, New York Institute of Technology, Choice

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521886392
• ISBN 13: 9780521886390
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328