Shakespeare and Wales: from the marches to the assembly
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England Ashgate ©2010
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: a Welsh correction. 1. Shakespeare's Welsh grandmother -- 2. Thirteen ways of looking like a Welshman : Shakespeare and his contemporaries -- 3. Glyn Dwr, Glendouer, Glendourdy and Glendower -- 4. Rhymer, minstrel lady Mortimer and the power of Welsh words -- 5. 'bastard Normans, Norman bastards' : anomalous identities in the life of Henry the Fift -- 6. Shakespeare's 'welsch men' and the 'King's English' -- 7. 'O, I am ignorance itself in this!' : listening to Welsh in Shakespeare and Armin -- 8. Contextualizing 1610 : Cymbeline, The Valiant Welshman, and The Princes of Wales -- 9. Cymbeline, the translatio imperii, and the matter of Britain -- 10. 'Howso'er 'tis strange ... Yet is it true' : the British history, fiction and performance in -- 11. 'Let a Welsh correction teach you a good English condition' : Shakespeare, Wales and the critics -- 12. Cackling home to Camelot : Shakespeare's Welsh roots -- Afterword translating Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Wales offers a 'Welsh correction' to a long-standing deficiency. It brings together experts in the field from both sides of the Atlantic to establish a detailed historical context that illustrates the range and richness of Shakespeare's Welsh sources and resources, and confirms the degree to which Shakespeare continues to impact upon Welsh culture and identity
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 248 pages)
ISBN:9780754690122
0754690121

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