Being and Having in Shakespeare

by Katharine Eisaman Maus

What is the relation between who a person is, and what he or she has? A number of Shakespeare's plays engage with this question, elaborating a 'poetics of property' centering on questions of authority and entitlement, of inheritance and prodigality, and of the different opportunities afforded by access to land and to chattel property. Being and Having in Shakespeare considers these presentations of ownership and authority Richard II and the Henry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199698007
• ISBN13: 9780199698004
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.8"