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Shakespeare's Cross-Cultural Encounters

✍ Scribed by Geraldo U. de Sousa

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Leaves
250
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

A study of tragedies, comedies, romances, and histories, this book examines the dynamic interplay of three concepts—gender, text, and habitat—as metaphors for cross-cultural definition. De Sousa argues that by refashioning stage aliens such as Jews, Moors, Amazons, and gypsies, Shakespeare interrogates a Eurocentric perspective and the caricatures cultures create of one another. Writing in an accessible, compelling style, de Sousa recovers a wealth of information on race and gender relations in early modern Europe.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
List of Plates......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 15
1. `The Uttermost Parts of Their Maps': Frontiers of Gender......Page 24
2. Joan of Arc, Margaret of Anjou, and the Instabilityof Gender......Page 54
3. Textual Encodings in The Merchant of Venice......Page 82
4. Textual Intersections:Titus Andronicus and Othello......Page 111
5. Habitat, Race, and Culturein Antony and Cleopatra......Page 143
6. Cultural Re-encounters in The Tempest......Page 173
Conclusion......Page 193
Notes......Page 198
Bibliography......Page 227
Index......Page 245

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