Taking a new approach to the metaphor of the political body, this book examines Shakespeare’s representation of that body as possessing epistemological faculties. The theater is one of these faculties, and is, therefore, essential to the health and survival of the Early Modern state. By depicting the theater as an essential faculty of the body politic, Shakespeare offers a defense of the theater against anti-theatrical critics.
Students and teachers interested in the body and its representations in literature will find this text illuminating as will those scholars whose work focuses on knowledge, its relationship to the body, ways of knowing, and anti-theatrical prejudice.
| ISBN: | 9781433101335 |
| Publication date: | 5th February 2008 |
| Author: | Martha Kalnin Diede |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 184 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Shakespeare |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Theatre: technical and background skills |
Taking a new approach to the metaphor of the political body, this book examines Shakespeare’s representation of that body as possessing epistemological faculties. The theater is one of these faculties, and is, therefore, essential to the health and survival of the Early Modern state.
Shakespeare’s Knowledgeable Body features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, Theatre: technical and background skills
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Shakespeare’s Knowledgeable Body was written by Martha Kalnin Diede and published by Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Shakespeare’s Knowledgeable Body has 184 pages
Yes it is part of Studies in Shakespeare series