Shakespeare's foreign worlds
Subtitle: national and transnational identities in the Elizabethan age
By: Carole Levin and John Watkins.
Contributors: Watkins, John, 1960-
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780801447419
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Characters; Characters and characteristics in literature; Group identity in literature; National characteristics, English, in literature; National characteristics in literature; Aliens in literature; Literature and history -- England -- History -- 16th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Murder not then the fruit within my womb" : Shakespeare's Joan, Foxe's Guernsey martyr, and women pleading pregnancy in English history and culture; title: Shakespeare's 1 Henry VI and the tragedy of Renaissance diplomacy; title: Converting the daughter : gender, power, and Jewish identity in the English Renaissance; title: Shakespeare and the decline of the Venetian Republic; title: Many different Kates : taming shrews and queens; title: Shakespeare and the women writers of the Veneto.