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Why Shakespeare?

Why Shakespeare?

Catherine Belsey

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2007
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Estudios literarios: obras de teatro y dramaturgos
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9781403993199

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In this exciting new introduction to Shakespeare, Catherine Belsey takes traditional tales as a starting point to argue against the cultural materialists who claim Shakespeare’s iconic status is no more than an accident of history. Each chapter shows how one of Shakespeare’s best-known plays retells with a difference stories familiar both then and now. Belsey goes on to put forward new readings, teasing out the enigmas that constitute these texts and the interpretations they have inspired.

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