Shakespeare's Neighbors - Theory Matters in the Bard and His Contemporaries

Shakespeare's Neighbors focuses on what lay next door to Shakespeare- the theoretical context that, while partially lost on us, was quite likely to inform the perception that Shakespeare's contemporaries (his "neighbors") had of his works. In this series of alternative readings, the primacy of the literary text is set against the backdrop of unexpected or largely ignored theories whose enormous diffusion renders them inescapable terms of comparison. Rocco Coronato advocates the likely as a viable backdrop to literary analysis. The inference has it that the presence of such widely disseminated theories may allow for the study of the literary works through their own codes and imagery, without implying a rigidly ideological transmission between social and literary domains. While written with literary criticism in mind, Coronato manages to avoid convoluted jargon, striving in the process to translate the terms of otherwise esoteric discourses into a generally accessible language form, for the benefit of a non-specialist audience as well.

Sommario

Chapter 1 Copyrights
Chapter 2 References and Abbreviations
Chapter 3 Forward
Chapter 4 Preface
Chapter 5 Acknowledgments
Chapter 6 A Descent into Richard
Chapter 7 What the Matter is with Barabas
Chapter 8 The Invention of Perdita
Chapter 9 Inducting Pocahontas
Chapter 10 The Likes of Viola
Chapter 11 A Poem on the Tube
Chapter 12 Shakespeare in Laughter
Chapter 13 Notes
Chapter 14 Bibliography
Chapter 15 Index

Info autore

Rocco Coronato is Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Siena, Italy.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rocco Coronato, Coronato Rocco
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 19.12.2001
• EAN: 9780761821458
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-2145-8
• Dimensioni: 145 mm x 221 mm x 19 mm
• Peso: 354 g
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Dance, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, REFERENCE / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Other performing arts, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Dance & Other Performing Arts, Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects, Hellenic Languages, Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects