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100			_aKiernan, Victor
245			_aShakespeare: Poet and Citizen
260			_aLondon: _bVerso, _c1993.
300			_aix, 261 p.
500			_aIncluding Bibliography & Index
505			_aPart I - A Time Out of Joint Part II - The Histories Part III - Experiments Part IV - The Comedies Part V - Life Unfolding
520			_aIn this book the distinguished historian Victor Kiernan makes a case for seeing Shakespeare as a writer profoundly sensitive to the great social and political upheavals through which he lived. Shakespeares poetic and dramatic achievement, Kiernan argues, was not something which transcended his environment but was directly enlarged by his civic consciousness and his critical reactions to a changing social fabric. Shakespeares phase of dramatic activity coincides with the first challenges to the institution of monarchy. Kiernan analyses the cycle of History plays in the light of the demise of feudal allegiances and the emergence of the modern state apparatus. He shows how the far-reaching transformations in social hierarchy which simultaneously began to take place are crucial to an understanding of the Comedies, in which confusion of identity, disguise and cross-dressing are central. And he examines the ways in which womens roles are affected by this nascent individualism, especially in relation to the ideas of romantic love around which the Comedies revolve. Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen draws a vivid portrait of the outstanding dramatist of modernity. Lucid, scholarly and absorbing, it will be a rich resource for both students and the general reader.
650			_aPolitical and social views
650			_aShakespeare, William, 1564-1616
650			_aLiterature and society
650			_aPolitics and literature
650			_aGreat Britain
650			_aPolitical plays, English
650			_aPolitical poetry, English
650			_aSocial problems in literature
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