Images of Englishmen and Foreigners in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: A Study of Stage Characters and National Identity in English Renaissance Drama, 1558-1642Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992 - 347 páginas The connection between Renaissance ideas about the character of individual nations and the presentation of stage characters of various nationalities in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries is examined in this volume. |
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... means of signalling the superiority of France as a nation situated in the temperate middle zone . This , however ... mean class in reference to age — child , man , or old man ; to sex — man or woman ; to country — Lacedaemonian or ...
... means of signalling the superiority of France as a nation situated in the temperate middle zone . This , however ... mean class in reference to age — child , man , or old man ; to sex — man or woman ; to country — Lacedaemonian or ...
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... means of stock national traits . As the following examples from this prose demonstrate , there was a continuing and intensifying debate on the subject . Comparing the character of the English with that of representatives of other ...
... means of stock national traits . As the following examples from this prose demonstrate , there was a continuing and intensifying debate on the subject . Comparing the character of the English with that of representatives of other ...
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... means of contrastive definitions was far from reliable . Wright argues that climate , social context , and education together may well determine the characters of nations . But he insists that these characters of nations should be ...
... means of contrastive definitions was far from reliable . Wright argues that climate , social context , and education together may well determine the characters of nations . But he insists that these characters of nations should be ...
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... means of boosting the patriotic spirit and of profiling national identity against the mirror of the past , it is not without interest to note that the principle governing stock trait distribution for characters with specific ...
... means of boosting the patriotic spirit and of profiling national identity against the mirror of the past , it is not without interest to note that the principle governing stock trait distribution for characters with specific ...
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... means of a representative selection of Elizabethan history plays . The most popular historical period to serve for a discussion of Anglo- foreign relations was the reign of King John . To an age not yet concerned with the early ...
... means of a representative selection of Elizabethan history plays . The most popular historical period to serve for a discussion of Anglo- foreign relations was the reign of King John . To an age not yet concerned with the early ...
Índice
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Englishmen Abroad 15581603 | 76 |
Foreigners in England 16031625 | 108 |
Englishmen Abroad 16031625 | 144 |
Foreigners in England 16251642 | 185 |
Englishmen Abroad 16251642 | 216 |
Conclusion | 237 |
Notes | 245 |
Bibliography | 289 |
Index | 319 |
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Images of Englishmen and Foreigners in the Drama of Shakespeare and His ... A. J. Hoenselaars Visualização de excertos - 1992 |
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Página 80 - But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
Página 32 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Página 94 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his Tombe, hee should triumphe againe on the Stage, and have his bones newe embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least (at severall times), who, in the Tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding.
Página 290 - Crudities. Hastily gobled up in five Moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia, alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands ; Newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling Members of this Kingdome &c.
Página 51 - Why you must needs be strangers : would you be pleased To find a nation of such barbarous temper That breaking out in hideous violence Would not afford you an abode on earth, Whet their detested knives against your throats, Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God 1 Dyco supplied the blank with
Página 296 - The Ball / A / Comedy, / As it was presented by her / Majesties Servants, at the private / House in Drury Lane.
Página 136 - No country's mirth is better than our own: No clime breeds better matter for your whore, Bawd, squire, impostor, many persons more, Whose manners, now call'd humours, feed the stage; And which have still been subject for the rage Or spleen of comic writers.
Página 163 - Besides, I have a lady of my own In merry England, for whose virtuous sake I took these arms ; and Susan is her name, A cobbler's maid in Milk Street; whom I vow Ne'er to forsake whilst life and Pestle last.
Página 153 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Referências a este livro
A Cultural Studies Approach to Two Exotic Citizen Romances by Thomas Heywood Joseph Courtland Visualização de excertos - 2001 |
Beyond Pug's Tour: National and Ethnic Stereotyping in Theory and Literary ... C. C. Barfoot Pré-visualização indisponível - 1997 |