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Why Shakespeare?

  • Why Shakespeare?

  • Attribution

    Catherine Belsey

  • Publication Details

    Book, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

  • Availability

    LOCATIONCALL #STATUS
     (UPPER LEVEL)  PR2900 .B38 2007  AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    In this exciting new introduction to Shakespeare, Catherine Belsey takes traditional tales as a starting point to argue against the cultural materialists who claim Shakespeare’s iconic status is no more than an accident of history. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

  • Author

  • Subject

  • Contents

    • Shakespeare’s singularity
    • As you like it and "The golden goose"
    • King Lear and the missing salt
    • The exiled princess in The winter’s tale
    • Fairly tales for grown-ups in A midsummer night’s dream
    • Hamlet and the reluctant hero
    • Twelfth Night and the riddle of gender - - Cultural difference as conundrum in The merchant of Venice
    • Postscript : happy ever after?

  • ISBN

    • 9781403993199
    • 140399319x
    • 1403993203
    • 9781403993205
    • 140399319x

  • Open Library ID

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