Shakespeare's Cross-Cultural Encounters

by Geraldo U.De Sousa

In this highly entertaining study, De Sousa argues that Shakespeare reinterprets, refashions and reinscribes his alien characters - Jews, Moors, Amazons and gypsies. In this way, the dramatist questions the narrowness of a European perspective which caricatures other societies and views them with suspicion. De Sousa examines how Shakespeare defines other cultures in terms of the interplay of gender, text and habitat. Written in a provocative style,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333740165
• ISBN13: 9780333740163
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"