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Shakespeare on the edge : border-crossing in the tragedies and the Henriad

Title: Shakespeare on the edge : border-crossing in the tragedies and the Henriad / Lisa Hopkins.
Author: Hopkins, Lisa, 1962-
Publication: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2005.

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Description

154 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This book analyses works by not only Shakespeare but also his contemporaries to argue that many of the plays of Shakespeare's central period, from the second tetralogy to Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello, engage with the idea of England's borders. But borders, it claims, are not only of geopolitical significance. In Shakespeare's imagination and indeed in that of his culture, eschatological overtones also accrue to the idea of the border. This is because the countries of the Celtic fringe were often discussed in terms of the supernatural and fairy lore and, in particular, the rivers which were often used as boundary markers were invested with heavily mythologized personae."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Tragedy.
tragedies.
Tragedies (Drama)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Tragedies.
Tragédies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-149) and index.

Contents

The marches: Henry IV and Henry V -- The coast: Hamlet -- The border: Macbeth -- Islands: Othello -- The edge: King Lear.

ISBN

0754637204
9780754637202

LCCN

2004029539

OCLC

ocm57342326
57342326
SCSB-14689575

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library