Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Stephen Greenblatt (The Class of 1932 Professor of English Literature, The Class of 1932 Professor of English Literature, the University of California, Berkeley)

ISBN 10: 0198122276 / ISBN 13: 9780198122272

Published by Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, Oxford, 1990

About this Item

Stephen Greenblatt has been at the centre of a major shift in literary interpretation towards a critical method that places cultural creation in history. In this book - a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method - he asks how collective beliefs and experiences are shaped, moved from one medium to another, concentrated in manageable form, and offered to the public on the stage. As well as giving us a new way of understanding Shakespeare's achievement, the book is an original analysis of a cultural process. Shakespearean Negotiations provides significant insights into Henry IV and Henry V, Twelfth Night, King Lear, and The Tempest; it also includes fascinating analyses of such aspects of early modern culture as exorcism, cross-dressing, colonial propaganda, and martial law codes. It is, as well, a masterly example of a new critical method by its leading practitioner. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (Clarendon Paperbacks)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198122276
• ISBN 13: 9780198122272
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 340 grams

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Synopsis

Stephen Greenblatt has been at the center of a major shift in literary interpretation toward a critical method that situates cultural creation in history. Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England is a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method, offering a new way of understanding the power of Shakespeare's achievement and, beyond this, an original analysis of cultural process.

About the Author

Stephen Greenblatt is The Class of 1932 Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.