The Uses of this World: Thinking Space in Shakespeare, Marlowe, Cary and Jonson
Author:   Andrew Hiscock
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
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Pages:   240
Publication Date:   08 October 2004
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The Uses of this World: Thinking Space in Shakespeare, Marlowe, Cary and Jonson


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Author:   Andrew Hiscock
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9780708318881


ISBN 10:   0708318886
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   08 October 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction (I) Thinking Space for Hamlet; Introduction (II) 'What's Hecuba to him...': Imitative Space and myths of Belonging in Hamlet; Chapter One Enclosing 'infinite riches in a little room'. The question of cultural marginality in The Jew of Malta; Chapter Two 'Here is my Space'. The Politics of Appropriation in Antony and Cleopatra; Chapter Three Erotic Sovereignty: Crises of Desire and Faith in The Winter's Tale and Henry VIII; Chapter Four The Hateful Cuckoo. Elizabeth Cary's Tragedie of Mariam, a Renaissance drama of Dispossession; Chapter Five Urban Dystopia: the Colonising of Venice in Volpone; Chapter Six 'With your ungoverned haste'. The passing of Time and Empires in The Alchemist

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Andrew Hiscock is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Wales, Bangor. He has published widely on early modern writing in academic journals. His first monograph, Authority and Desire: Crises of Interpretation in Shakespeare and Racine, appeared in 1996 and he co-edited Dangerous Diversity: The Changing Faces of Wales from the Renaissance to the Present Day (1998). He is at present co-editing a forthcoming collection, Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists, and is working on a new study of discourses of memory in early modern literature.

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