Shakespearean Intersections: Language, Contexts, Critical Keywords

✍ Scribed by Patricia Parker

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 419
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Providing innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives on Shakespeare's plays, Patricia Parker offers a series of dazzling readings that demonstrate how easy-to-overlook textual or semantic details reverberate within and beyond the Shakespearean text, and suggest that the boundary between language and context is an incontinent divide.

Providing innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives on Shakespeare's plays, Patricia Parker offers a series of dazzling readings that demonstrate how easy-to-overlook textual or semantic details reverberate within and beyond the Shakespearean text, and suggest that the boundary between language and context is an incontinent divide.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Preposterous Reversals, Latter Ends: Language and Contexts in Love’s Labor’s Lost
Chapter 2. Mastering Bianca, Preposterous Constructions, and Wanton Supposes: The Taming of the Shrew
Chapter 3. Multilingual Quinces and A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Visual Contexts, Carpenters’ Coigns, Athenian Weddings
Chapter 4. “No Sinister Nor No Awkward Claim”: Theatrical Contexts and Preposterous Recalls in Henry V
Chapter 5. What’s in a Name? Brabant and the Global Contexts of Othello
Chapter 6. Intimations of Ganymede in Cymbeline
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments