Citizen Shakespeare
Subtitle: Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays (Early Modern Cultural Studies)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781403966667
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Social classes in literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Shakespeare; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Group identity in literature; General; Citizenship in literature
First sentence: Comedies by Shakespeare are usually linked to London, if at all, under the eategories of "city comedy" or "citizen comedy," and more often than not they fail to meet the expectations which attend these terms.