Writing Russia in the age of Shakespeare
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Writing Russia in the age of Shakespeare
(Studies in European cultural transition / general editors, Martin Stannard and Greg Walker, v. 22)
Ashgate, c2004
- alk. paper
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p.[237]-249) and index
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study commences with a simple question: how did Russia matter to England in the age of William Shakespeare? In order to answer the question, the author studies stories of Lapland survival, diplomatic envoys, merchant transactions, and plays for the public theaters of London. At the heart of every chapter, Shakespeare and his contemporaries are seen questioning the status of writing in English, what it can and cannot accomplish under the influence of humanism, capitalism, and early modern science. The phrase 'Writing Russia' stands for the way these English writers attempted to advance themselves by conjuring up versions of Russian life. Each man wrote out of a joint-stock arrangement, and each man's relative success and failure tells us much about the way Russia mattered to England.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Inventing the venture: England and Russia at mid-century
- Ivan IV, Elizabeth I, and the dispatch of Anthony Jenkinson
- Writing the envoy: William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost and the reasons against reading
- Writing large: the case of Jerome Horsey, individualist
- Writing ardor: the submissions of Giles Fletcher
- 'With the Emperor of Russia': subjection and withdrawal in William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
- Imperial tyranny and the daughter's seclusion in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
- The King's Men's version of Muscovy: John Fletcher's The Loyal Subject
- Epilogue: knowledge, permutation, and John Tradescant's Roses
- Bibliography
- Index.
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