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This book offers an engaging account of the portrayal of outsiders in Shakespeare's writings. It considers characters who are outsiders for an array of reasons including their race, religion, gender, psychology, and morality, and highlights the idea of otherness as a relative rather than fixed term.
List of contents
- Introduction
- The Merchant of Venice and its Pressured Conversions
- Outsiders and the Festive Community in Twelfth Night
- Women as Outsiders and Insiders
- Othello and Other Outsiders
- King Lear: Outsiders in the Family and the Kingdom
- Epilogue: The Tempest, Outsiders, and Border Crossings
About the author
Marianne Novy is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She has written Love's Argument: Gender Relations in Shakespeare (North Carolina, 1984), Engaging with Shakespeare: On Responses of George Eliot and Other Women Novelists (Georgia, 1994), and Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama (Michigan, 2005). She has edited four collections of essays, three of them dealing with appropriations of Shakespeare by women writers and performers up to the present. She also initiated and developed the Faculty Diversity Seminar at the University of Pittsburgh and the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, an international academic organization.
Summary
This book offers an engaging account of the portrayal of outsiders in Shakespeare's writings. It considers characters who are outsiders for an array of reasons including their race, religion, gender, psychology, and morality, and highlights the idea of otherness as a relative rather than fixed term.
Additional text
Novy's book deserves to enjoy a wide readership.
