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Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan drama /
"Covering a wide variety of dramatic texts and performances from 1550 to 1600, including Shakespeare's second tetralogy, this book explores moral, historical, and comic plays as contributions to Elizabethan debates on Anglo-foreign relations in England. Aliens and Englishness reads a body...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Covering a wide variety of dramatic texts and performances from 1550 to 1600, including Shakespeare's second tetralogy, this book explores moral, historical, and comic plays as contributions to Elizabethan debates on Anglo-foreign relations in England. Aliens and Englishness reads a body of plays that represents Englishness as a state of ideological, invented superiority - paradoxically stable in its constant changeability, and brought into being by incorporating and eventually even celebrating, rather than rejecting, the alien."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-197) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780521899536 0521899532 9780511517884 0511517882 9780511576140 0511576145 9781107404786 1107404789 |