Shakespeare's Cross-Cultural Encounters
, by de Sousa, Geraldo U.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780333949474 | 0333949471
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/23/2002
A study of tragedies, comedies, romances, and histories, this book examines the dynamic interplay of three concepts--gender, text, and habitat--as metaphors for cross-cultural definition. The book focuses on the cross-cultural experience, arguing that Shakespeare reinterprets, refashions, and reinscribes stage aliens such as Jews, Moors, Amazons and gypsies and thus interrogates a Eurocentric perspective and the caricatures that cultures create of one another. Writing in an accessible, compelling style, de Sousa recovers a wealth of information on race and gender relations in early modern Europe.