Retheorizing shakespeare through presentist readings
Auteur :
O'Rourke, James
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781032927824
Date de publication :
14 oct. 2024
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
370 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close readings, that a presentist Shakespeare is not an anachronism. Relying on a Brechtian aesthetic of "naïve surrealism" as the performative model of the early modern, urban, public theater, James O’Rou