Shakespeare, Marlow and the Politics of France

by Richard Hillman

Taking a wide-ranging intertextual approach, Richard Hillman sets Early Modern English play-texts against political and cultural discourses concerning France, as these informed contemporary English consciousness. The English works explored go beyond those directly representing French affairs; the French examples include dramatic treatments of Joan of Arc and of the assassination of the Guises by Henri III. In addition to its fresh readings of some...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333694546
• ISBN13: 9780333694541
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"