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Shakespeare's liminal spaces
Contesting authority on the early modern stage
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English
Published/Copyright:
2024
About this book
This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to reflect concurrent cartographic, geopolitical and social anxieties. In seeking to expose the dynamics and fluctuations of power on the stage, Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare’s forests, battlefields, shores and gardens are revealed as deliberate dramatic devices with the capacity to destabilise social structures. Haworth’s nuanced consideration of these spaces reveals that they were ideally suited to the staging of social frictions as he traces the shifting balance of power between opposing ideological standpoints and the internal struggles between an emergent subjectivity and conformity with the centralised authorities of Church and Court.
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Ben Haworth is a Lecturer of Early Modern Literature at Nottingham Trent University
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'Haworth explores Shakespeare’s use of liminal settings to subvert social structures and promote dissident narratives... The book will especially appeal to those with an interest in theory.'
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Front Matter
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Contents
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List of figures
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Acknowledgements
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Prologue
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1 In search of the liminal
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2 Between ocean and land
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3 Subversive sylvan settings
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4 Corrupted Eden
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5 Theatres of war
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Index
217
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eBook published on:
September 11, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781526165930
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eBook ISBN:
9781526165930
Keywords for this book
Carnivalesque; Cultural materialism; Liminality; Literary geography; Mikhail Bakhtin; New historicism; Patriarchy; Shakespeare; Stage settings; Subversion
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
