Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, ContextIn the interpretation of Shakespeare, wordplay has often been considered inconsequential, frequently reduced to a decorative "quibble." But in Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context, Patricia Parker, one of the most original interpreters of Shakespeare, argues that attention to Shakespearean wordplay reveals unexpected linkages, not only within and between plays but also between the plays and their contemporary culture. Combining feminist and historical approaches with attention to the "matter" of language as well as of race and gender, Parker's brilliant "edification from the margins" illuminates much that has been overlooked, both in Shakespeare and in early modern culture. This book, a reexamination of popular and less familiar texts, will be indispensable to all students of Shakespeare and the early modern period. |
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... RUDE MECHANICALS " : A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S Dream ix 1 20 56 AND SHAKESPearean JoineRY 83 4 " ILLEGITIMATE CONSTRUCTION ' : TRANSLATION , ADULTERY , AND MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION IN THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR 116 5 " CONVEYERS ARE YOU ALL ...
... RUDE MECHANICALS " : A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S Dream ix 1 20 56 AND SHAKESPearean JoineRY 83 4 " ILLEGITIMATE CONSTRUCTION ' : TRANSLATION , ADULTERY , AND MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION IN THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR 116 5 " CONVEYERS ARE YOU ALL ...
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... rude " or unruly matters characterized as needing to be shaped or ruled . This is the focus of the discussion of " rude mechanicals " and the asym- metries of class and gender in A Midsummer Night's Dream in chapter 3 ; and of the ...
... rude " or unruly matters characterized as needing to be shaped or ruled . This is the focus of the discussion of " rude mechanicals " and the asym- metries of class and gender in A Midsummer Night's Dream in chapter 3 ; and of the ...
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... rude mechani- cals , " of the joints and seams of the joinery on which order and rule depend . At several points here , similarly , Lacan's " discourse of the Other " ( or its extensions in postcolonial theory ) may seem to come closest ...
... rude mechani- cals , " of the joints and seams of the joinery on which order and rule depend . At several points here , similarly , Lacan's " discourse of the Other " ( or its extensions in postcolonial theory ) may seem to come closest ...
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... rude mechanicals " of A Midsummer Night's Dream and of apparently inconsequential lines on marital and artisanal joinery in As You Like It ( the play whose Folio text famously has Hymen joining " his hand with his " ) , in relation to ...
... rude mechanicals " of A Midsummer Night's Dream and of apparently inconsequential lines on marital and artisanal joinery in As You Like It ( the play whose Folio text famously has Hymen joining " his hand with his " ) , in relation to ...
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... rude mechanicals , " the mechanics of ideological and theatrical construction , and the metaphorics of sexual as well as textual repro- duction . Several chapters , finally , examine the related Shakespearean figure of the second — not ...
... rude mechanicals , " the mechanics of ideological and theatrical construction , and the metaphorics of sexual as well as textual repro- duction . Several chapters , finally , examine the related Shakespearean figure of the second — not ...
Contents
PREPOSTEROUS ESTATES PREPOSTEROUS EVENTS FROM LATE TO EARLY SHAKESPEARE | 20 |
THE BIBLE AND THE MARKETPLACE THE COMEDY OF ERRORS | 56 |
RUDE MECHANICALS A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM AND SHAKESPEAREAN JOINERY | 83 |
ILLEGITIMATE CONSTRUCTION TRANSLATION ADULTERY AND MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION IN THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR | 116 |
CONVEYERS ARE You ALL TRANSLATING CONVEYING REPRESENTING AND SECONDING IN THE HISTORIES AND HAMLET | 149 |
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