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Retheorizing Shakespeare Through Presentist Readings

Retheorizing Shakespeare Through Presentist Readings( )
Author: O'Rourke, James
Series title:Routledge Studies in Shakespeare Ser.
ISBN:978-0-415-89703-7
Publication Date:Nov 2011
Publisher:Routledge
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $259.00
Book Description:

This booknbsp;offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close readings, that a presentist Shakespeare is not an anachronism. Relying on a Brechtian aesthetic of "naïve surrealism" as the performative model of the early modern, urban, public theater, James O'Rourke demonstrates how this Brechtian model is able to capture the full range of interplays that could take place between Shakespeare's words,...
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Book Details
Pages:190
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.3 x 23.5 x 1.9 cm
Book Weight:0.408 Kilograms



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