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Author:   Sophie Chiari
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367880897

ISBN 10:   036788089
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Theories and Philosophies of Transmission: Ship of Fools: Foucault and the Shakespeareans. Shakespeare's paradoxes of excellence. Shakespeare and the atomist heritage. Part 2 Initiation Practices: Hilliard and Sidney's 'rule of the eye'. Mercurial apprentices in city comedies. The courtesan and her mother in Middleton's A Mad World, my Masters. Rumour and second-hand knowledge in Much Ado About Nothing. Part 3 Political and Spiritual Issues: Marlowe's political balancing act: religion and translatio imperii in Doctor Faustus (B). Magic, manipulation and misrule in Doctor Faustus and Measure for Measure. Shakespeare and the violation of sanctuary. Limited being: revising Hamlet in The Revenger's Tragedy. Part 4 Transgressions of Gender and Genre: Cephalus and Procris: the transmission of a myth in early modern England. Out-Oviding Ovid in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. From intertextual to gender transgression in Middleton's The Witch. 'Transversing' and 'transprosing': the case of George Villiers's The Rehearsal (1671). Romeo and Juliet in Brazil: Grupo Galpao's Romeu e Julieta. Afterword: 'Love's transgression'.

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...readers should find something of interest in this volume's diverse case studies. - Rajiv Thind, The University of Queensland in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 33.1 (2016).

...readers should find something of interest in this volume's diverse case studies. - Rajiv Thind, The University of Queensland in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 33.1 (2016).

"""...readers should find something of interest in this volume’s diverse case studies."" - Rajiv Thind, The University of Queensland in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 33.1 (2016)."

Author Information

Sophie Chiari is Professor of Early Modern Literature at Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand (CERHAC, French National Centre for Scientific Research).

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