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Local Shakespeares : proximations and power /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Orkin, Martin
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Tragicomedies. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Appreciation > Foreign countries. Power (Social sciences) in literature. Social problems in literature. Tragicomedy > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : travelling to Shakespeare's late plays
Local knowledges and Shakespeare's global texts
Intersecting knowledges : Shakespeare in Timbuktu
Active readers : whose muti in the web of it?
William Tshikinya-Chaka, I presume? : cultural encounter in performance
Encountering men in Shakespeare's late plays
Prologue : the 'infirmities of men' in Pericles
Cymbeline : 'that most venerable man which I/did call my father'
The winter's tale : 'let no man mock me'
The tempest : 'any strange beast there makes a man'
Afterword : the unruliness of patriarchy.