Shakespeare's liminal spaces: Contesting authority on the early modern stage
This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to reflect concurrent cartographic, geopolitical and social anxieties. In seeking to expose the dynamics and fluctuations of power on the stage, Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare’s forests, battlefields, shores and gardens are revealed as deliberate dramatic devices with the capacity to destabilise social structures. Haworth’s nuanced consideration of these spaces reveals that they were ideally suited to the staging of social frictions as he traces the shifting balance of power between opposing ideological standpoints and the internal struggles between an emergent subjectivity and conformity with the centralised authorities of Church and Court.
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Shakespeare's liminal spaces: Contesting authority on the early modern stage
This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to reflect concurrent cartographic, geopolitical and social anxieties. In seeking to expose the dynamics and fluctuations of power on the stage, Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare’s forests, battlefields, shores and gardens are revealed as deliberate dramatic devices with the capacity to destabilise social structures. Haworth’s nuanced consideration of these spaces reveals that they were ideally suited to the staging of social frictions as he traces the shifting balance of power between opposing ideological standpoints and the internal struggles between an emergent subjectivity and conformity with the centralised authorities of Church and Court.
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Shakespeare's liminal spaces: Contesting authority on the early modern stage

Shakespeare's liminal spaces: Contesting authority on the early modern stage

by Ben Haworth
Shakespeare's liminal spaces: Contesting authority on the early modern stage

Shakespeare's liminal spaces: Contesting authority on the early modern stage

by Ben Haworth

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This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to reflect concurrent cartographic, geopolitical and social anxieties. In seeking to expose the dynamics and fluctuations of power on the stage, Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare’s forests, battlefields, shores and gardens are revealed as deliberate dramatic devices with the capacity to destabilise social structures. Haworth’s nuanced consideration of these spaces reveals that they were ideally suited to the staging of social frictions as he traces the shifting balance of power between opposing ideological standpoints and the internal struggles between an emergent subjectivity and conformity with the centralised authorities of Church and Court.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781526165916
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 07/09/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 238
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Ben Haworth is a Lecturer of Early Modern Literature at Nottingham Trent University

Table of Contents

Prologue
1. In search of the liminal: The theoretical landscapes of power
2. Between ocean and land: ‘The guiled shore to a most dangerous sea’
3. Subversive sylvan settings: Dark humours and the theatrical forest
4. Corrupted Eden: The liminal garden and cultures of resistance
5. Theatres of war: Shakespeare’s ideological battlefields
Bibliography
Conclusion
Index

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