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Writing Russia in the Age of Shakespeare
Daryl W. Palmer
出版
Routledge
, 2017-03-02
主題
Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature
Literary Collections / General
Literary Criticism / General
Social Science / Regional Studies
Literary Criticism / Renaissance
Drama / Shakespeare
History / Europe / Renaissance
History / Europe / General
Social Science / Human Geography
ISBN
1351870769
9781351870764
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=m9hADgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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This study commences with a simple question: how did Russia matter to England in the age of William Shakespeare? In order to answer the question, the author studies stories of Lapland survival, diplomatic envoys, merchant transactions, and plays for the public theaters of London. At the heart of every chapter, Shakespeare and his contemporaries are seen questioning the status of writing in English, what it can and cannot accomplish under the influence of humanism, capitalism, and early modern science. The phrase 'Writing Russia' stands for the way these English writers attempted to advance themselves by conjuring up versions of Russian life. Each man wrote out of a joint-stock arrangement, and each man's relative success and failure tells us much about the way Russia mattered to England.