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Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate provocative book by one ofthe most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. Charting tenyears of critical development these challenging witty essays shed new lighton Renaissance studies. It also raises intriguing questions about how theculture and history of the past illuminates the key social and political issuesof today.Lisa Jardine rereads Renaissance drama in its historical and cultural contextfrom laws of defamation in Othello to the competing loyalties of companionatemarriage and male friendship in The Changeling. In doing so she reveals awealth of new insights sometimes surprising but always original andengrossing. At the same time these essays also provide a fascinating accountof the rise of feminist scholarship since the 1980s and the diversifying of newhistoricist approaches over the same period. «
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