Shakespeare, Marlow and the Politics of France

by R. Hillman

Overview

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 familiar plays, the book proposes, as unique to the English-French dynamic, a theoretical model relating history, discourse and subjectivity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333694541
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/09/2002
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)
Lexile:	1620L (what's this?)

About the Author

RICHARD HILLMAN is Professeur, Université François-Rabelais Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, and and editor of the journal Renaissance and Reformation. His previous books include Shakespearean Subversions, Intertextuality and Romance in Renaissance Drama, William Shakespeare: The Problem Plays, Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama and translations from Marie de Gournay (with Colette Quesnel).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Textual Note Introduction: The Vasty (Discursive) Fields of France The Unfortunate Traveller in (and out of) France Shakespeare's Arthurian Misfortunes Marlovian Monarchs and Various Guises Turning and Turning Again: Shakespeare's First Tetralogy 'Of tendyr hertys been Englysche men ' Notes Works Cited Index

Editorial Reviews

Hillman (English, Universit<'e> Francois-Rabelais, Tours, France) adopts an intertextual approach to some familiar Early Modern English plays by setting them against political and cultural discourses concerning France, which so informed contemporary English consciousness. Texts examined include a variety of political pamphlets and some rarely discussed French plays about Jeanne d'Arc and the assassination of the Guises by Henri III. The author also proposes a theoretical model relating history, discourse, and subjectivity. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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