Shakespeare: Staging the World
- ISBN-10
- 0714128287
- ISBN-13
- 9780714128283
- Series
- Shakespeare
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Authors
- Jonathan Bate, Dora Thornton
Description
The playhouse and the role of playwright were relatively new phenomena during Shakespeare's time, yet his audience spanned all sections of society, from royalty down to the common man. Shakespeare: staging the world, will show what these audiences were finding out about the world through the eyes of playwright Dora Thornton. Shakespeare: staging the world, will use Shakespeare's amazing characters and evocative locations as a way of showing how all the world was a stage, full of dramatic encounters between cultures and nationalities. Shylock is our way into early modern Jewish culture, Othello takes us to Africa and Caliban to the New World.
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