Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index.
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Introduction : travelling to Shakespeare's late plays -- Local knowledge and Shakespeare's global texts -- Intersecting knowledges : Shakespeare in Timbuktu -- Active readers : whose muti in the web of it? -- William Tshikinya-Chaka I presume? cultural encounter in performance -- Encountering men in Shakespeare's late plays -- Prologue : the 'infirmities of men' in Pericles -- Cymbeline : 'that most venerable man which/I did call my father' -- The winter's tale : 'let no man mock me' -- The tempest : 'any strange beast there makes a man' -- Afterword : the unruliness of patriarchy.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book shows how 'local', 'non-metropolitan' knowledge and experience might extend our understanding of various aspects of Shakespeare's plays, using as a particular example the presentation of masculinity in the late plays.