Being and having in Shakespeare
"What is the relation between who a person is, and what he or she has? A number of Shakespeare's plays engage with this question, elaborating a 'poetics of property' centering on questions of authority and entitlement, of inheritance and prodigality, and of the different opportunities afforded by access to land and to chattel property. Being and Having in Shakespeare considers these presentations of ownership and authority."--Jacket.
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- Full title :Being and having in Shakespeare / Katharine Eisaman Maus.
Summary
"What is the relation between who a person is, and what he or she has? A number of Shakespeare's plays engage with this question, elaborating a 'poetics of property' centering on questions of authority and entitlement, of inheritance and prodigality, and of the different opportunities afforded by access to land and to chattel property. Being and Having in Shakespeare considers these presentations of ownership and authority."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:141 p. ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199698004, 0199698007
- oclc:ocn920339758
- Dewey Decimal:822.33
Table of Contents
Being and having in Richard II -- Prodigal princes : land and chattels in the second tetralogy -- Heirs and affines in The merchant of Venice -- The properties of friendship in The merchant of Venice -- Vagabond kings : entitlement and distribution in 2 Henry VI and King Lear.
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