Shakespeare and the question of culture : Early modern literature and the cultural turn

This text presents a cultural analysis of Shakespeare's works and other early modern literature. Contending that recent "thick" historical criticism has gone too far in the direction of the local and peculiar, Bruster (U. of Texas) offers a "thin" description of culture that...

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Hoofdauteur: Bruster, Douglas
Formaat: Boek
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Gepubliceerd in: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2003
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Samenvatting:This text presents a cultural analysis of Shakespeare's works and other early modern literature. Contending that recent "thick" historical criticism has gone too far in the direction of the local and peculiar, Bruster (U. of Texas) offers a "thin" description of culture that incorporates a broader range of contextual elements than New Historicism commonly employs. Early chapters are devoted to such topics as print culture in late- Elizabethan England and female-on-female eroticism in the theater, while the final three analyze how prominent critical schools shape our reading of literature