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The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare
R. Malcolm Smuts (Ed.)
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Description for The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare
Hardback. he Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare offers literary scholars a variety of perspectives, insights and methodologies found in current historical work that inform the study of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Editor(s): Smuts, R. Malcolm. Series: Oxford Handbooks of Literature. Num Pages: 704 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 171. .
The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on the period of Shakespeare's career that will assist and stimulate scholars of his poems and plays. Rather than merely attempting to summarize the historical 'background' to Shakespeare, individual chapters seek to exemplify a wide variety of perspectives and methodologies currently used in historical research on the early modern period that can inform close analysis of literature. Different sections examine political history at both the national and local levels; relationships between intellectual culture and the early modern political imagination; relevant aspects of ... Read more
The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on the period of Shakespeare's career that will assist and stimulate scholars of his poems and plays. Rather than merely attempting to summarize the historical 'background' to Shakespeare, individual chapters seek to exemplify a wide variety of perspectives and methodologies currently used in historical research on the early modern period that can inform close analysis of literature. Different sections examine political history at both the national and local levels; relationships between intellectual culture and the early modern political imagination; relevant aspects of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Oxford Handbooks
Condition
New
Number of Pages
848
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199660841
SKU
V9780199660841
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About R. Malcolm Smuts (Ed.)
R. Malcolm Smuts, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has had a lifelong interest in interdisciplinary scholarship on early modern Britain and Europe. His publications include Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in England (1987); Culture and Power in England 1585-1685 (1998) and several edited collections and articles on aspects of political ... Read more
Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare
Heavily footnoted, scrupulous, succinct, thoughtful, synthetic but also original- it is a collection I'll return to over and over again in both my research and my teaching.
Henry S. Turner, Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900
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Henry S. Turner, Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900
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