Shakespeare''s Englishes - Against Englishness

Claims that Shakespeare resists an emergent, exclusionary post-reformation ideology of 'true' Englishness in his early plays.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Shakespeare and cultural reformation ideology; 2. Shakespeare and 'the King's English': language, history, power; 3. Shakespeare and 'the true-born Englishman': 'theatre' and the ideology of national character; 4. 'they bring in straing rootes': Shakespeare and 'the straingers case'; 5. Figures and parables of a 'straing' word: Shakespeare's 'extravagancy'.

About the author

Margaret Tudeau-Clayton is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the Université de Neuchatel, Switzerland.

Summary

This urgent and original book shows how Shakespeare's early comedies and the second tetralogy of history plays resist an emergent exclusionary idea of (the) 'true' English with its attendant violence towards others, proposing rather an inclusive idea of 'our English'.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret (Universite De Neuchatel Tudeau-Clayton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108493734
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49373-4
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean