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Book Description Condition: New. pp. 256. Seller Inventory # 26374603332
Book Description Condition: New. pp. 256. Seller Inventory # 371474843
Book Description N.A. Condition: New. ISBN:9788125060123 N.A. Seller Inventory # 2073967
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction. Section 1: Socio-cultural Backgrounds: 1. Monarchy and authority. 2. Gender, family and society. 3. Expanding worlds and new peoples. Section 2: Shakespeare and/in the Theatre: 4. Drama, the theatre and stagecraft. 5. Shakespeare and his contemporaries. 6. The forms of Shakespearean drama. Section 3: Shakespeare Ever After: 7. Shakespeare adaptations. 8. Shakespeare and criticism. Recommended Reading. Index. This book presents an array of contexts that operated in Shakespeare's plays. These include ideas about kingship and authority; gender roles; prejudices, antipathies and stereotypes regarding national, racial, gender or ethnic identities; views about the world outside England or about the classical world; and the world of the theatre, among many others. The book analyses how these contexts are reflected, examined, interrogated and sometimes subverted in his plays. Seller Inventory # 117137