Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-200) and index.
'Why should he call her whore?': defamation and Desdemona's case -- 'No offence i' th' world': unlawfull marriage in Hamlet -- Cultural confusion and Shakespeare's learned heroines: 'These are old paradoxes' -- Twins and travesties: gender, dependency and sexual availability in Twelfth night -- Reading and the technology of textual affect: Erasmus's familiar letters and Shakespeare's King Lear -- Alien intelligence: Mercantile exchange and knowledge transactions in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta -- Companionate marriage versus male friendship: Anxiety for the lineal family in Jacobean drama -- Unpicking the tapestry: the scholar of women's history as Penelope among her suitors -- What happens in Hamlet?
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Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. Charting ten years of critical development, these challenging, witty essays shed new light on Renaissance studies. It also raises intriguing questions about how the culture and history of the past illuminates the key social and political issues of today. Lisa Jardine re-reads Renaissance drama in its historical and cultural context, from laws of defamation in Othello to the competing loyalties of companionate marriage and male frie.
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Reading Shakespeare historically.
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Political and social views.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Pensée politique et sociale.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616
Historicism.
Literature and history-- England-- History-- 16th century.
Literature and society-- England-- History-- 16th century.
Social problems in literature.
Women and literature-- England-- History-- 16th century.
Femmes et littérature-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- 16e siècle.
Historicisme.
Littérature et histoire-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- 16e siècle.
Littérature et société-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- 16e siècle.