Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds - 9780801477980

Shakespeare's Foreign WorldsNational and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age\nAuthor(s): Carole Levin, John Watkins\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801477980, 978-0801477980\nSynopsis\nIn Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare's plays bear the marks of exile and exploration, rural depopulation, urban expansion, and shifting mercantile and diplomatic configurations. He fills his plays with characters testing the limits of personal identity: foreigners, usurpers, outcasts, outlaws, scolds, shrews, witches, mercenaries, and cross-dressers.\n\n Through parallel discussions of Henry VI, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, Levin and W.