Local Shakespeares: Proximations and PowerTaylor & Francis, 2005 - 220 pages "This remarkable volume challenges scholars and students to look beyond a dominant European and North American "metropolitan bank" of Shakespeare knowledge. As well as revealing the potential for a new understanding of Shakespeare's plays, Martin Orkin adopts a fresh approach to issues of power, where "proximations" emerge from a process of dialogue and challenge traditional notions of authority. Since their first performances, Shakespeare's plays and their audiences or readers have journeyed to one another across time and space, to and from countless and always different historical, geographical and ideological locations. Engagement with a Shakespeare text always entails in part, then, cultural encounter or clash, and readings are shaped by a reader's particular locations and knowledge. Part I of this book challenges us to recognise the way in which "local" or "non-metropolitan" knowledges and experiences might extend understanding of Shakespeare's texts and their locations. Part II demonstrates the use of local as well as metropolitan knowledges in exploring the presentation of masculinity in Shakespeare's late plays. These plays themselves dramatise encounters with different cultures and crucially, challenges to established authority." -- Back cover. |
Contents
PARTI | 15 |
whose muti in the web of it? | 29 |
William TshikinyaChaka I presume? Cultural encounter | 43 |
the infirmities of men in Pericles | 63 |
that most venerable man which IDid call | 82 |
Let no man mock me | 112 |
Any strange beast there makes a man | 142 |
the unruliness of patriarchy | 165 |
Notes | 171 |
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References to this book
Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England Gina Bloom No preview available - 2007 |