Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative

by James Loxley, Mark Robson, Mark Robson

Book Overview

This book will constitute an original intervention into longstanding but insistently relevant debates around the significance of notions of 'performativity' to the critical analysis of early modern drama.

In particular, the book aims to:

show how the investigation of performativity can enable readings of Shakespeare and Jonson that challenge the dominant methodological frameworks within which those plays have come to be read;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041599327X
• ISBN13: 9780415993272
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"