Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age

by John Watkins, Carole Levin, John Watkins

Book Overview

In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare's plays bear the marks of exile and exploration, rural depopulation, urban expansion, and shifting mercantile and diplomatic configurations. He fills his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801447410
• ISBN13: 9780801447419
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher