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Shakespearean Territories
Contributor(s): Elden, Stuart (Author)

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 ISBN: 022655919X     ISBN-13: 9780226559193
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
OUR PRICE: $31.50  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- History | Europe - Great Britain - Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)
- Literary Criticism | Shakespeare
Dewey: 822.33
LCCN: 2018004669
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.95 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Chronological Period - 15th Century
- Chronological Period - 16th Century
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Choice 06/01/2019
 
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Publisher Description:
Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much Shakespeare's unique historical position and political understanding can teach us about territory. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological advances in measuring, navigation, cartography, and surveying, and his plays open up important ways of thinking about strategy, economy, the law, and colonialism, providing critical insight into a significant juncture in history. Shakespeare's plays explore many territorial themes: from the division of the kingdom in King Lear, to the relations among Denmark, Norway, and Poland in Hamlet, to questions of disputed land and the politics of banishment in Richard II. Elden traces how Shakespeare developed a nuanced understanding of the complicated concept and practice of territory and, more broadly, the political-geographical relations between people, power, and place. A meticulously researched study of over a dozen classic plays, Shakespearean Territories will provide new insights for geographers, political theorists, and Shakespearean scholars alike.

Contributor Bio(s): Elden, Stuart: - Stuart Elden is professor of political theory and geography at the University of Warwick. He is the author of several books, including The Birth of Territory, published by the University of Chicago Press.
 
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