Shakespeare's foreign worlds : national and transnational identities in the Elizabethan age

Publication Data

• Title Shakespeare's foreign worlds : national and transnational identities in the Elizabethan age
• Author Carole Levin
• Contributor John Watkins
• Publisher Cornell University Press
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Ithaca, N.Y.
• Language English

Contents

Gender, punishment, and peace-making in 1 Henry VI. Murder not then the fruit within my womb: Shakespeare's Joan, Foxe's Guernsey martyr, and women pleading pregnancy in English history and culture
Shakespeare's 1 Henry VI and the tragedy of Renaissance diplomacy
Aliens in our midst: Jews, Italians, and wary englishmen in the merchant of Vinice. Converting the daughter: gender, power, and Jewish identity in the English Renaissance
Shakespeare and the decline of the Venetian Republic
Dangerous reading in the taming of the shrew. Many different Kates: taming shrews and queens
Shakespeare and the women writers of the Veneto.

Topics

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 :: Characters
• Characters and characteristics in literature
• Group identity in literature
• National characteristics, English, in literature
• National characteristics in literature
• Aliens in literature
• 015103579

Shakespeare's foreign worlds : national and transnational identities in the Elizabethan age by Carole Levin. ISBN 9780801447419. Published by Cornell University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.