{"product_id":"9780816655908","title":"Essaying Shakespeare","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pioneering scholar of Shakespeare and early modern letters provides an overview of work in the field\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor more than twenty-five years, Karen Newman has brought her critical acumen to bear on early modern studies. In this collection of her essays on Shakespeare-some acknowledged classics and others never before published-Newman shows how changing theoretical trends have shaped Shakespeare studies, from new historicism and gender studies to critical race studies and globalization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCentral to Newman's work is social exchange, or the circulation of people and objects. At least two of these essays have had a powerful and lasting impact on Shakespeare studies: \"Renaissance Family Politics and Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew\" and \"'And wash the Ethiop White': Femininity and the Monstrous in Othello.\" Three essays appear in print for the first time: an examination of clothing of the poor and the portrayal of the king as a beggar in Richard II; a stinging review of Harold Bloom's book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human; and a rethinking of claims about the globalization of culture and cultural translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEssaying Shakespeare chronicles Newman's own critical development to provide a significant map of critical work on Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49712899686648,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":49.93,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780816655908-1.jpg?v=1783618085","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9780816655908","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}