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  title info:
    title: Shakespeare and the resistance
    sub title: the Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the poems that challenged Tudor tyranny
  name:
    name part: Asquith, Clare
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A brilliant and provocative reinterpretation of Shakespeare's largely forgotten epic poems, and the political controversy they incited. As the year 1600 approached, unrest was stirring in post-Reformation England. The people pitted themselves against Queen Elizabeth, questioning the monarchy and exploring republicanism. Amidst this tension, William Shakespeare published a pair of epic poems dedicated to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, which would quickly become bestsellers, Venus of Adonis in 1593 and The Rape of Lucrece one year later. Although wildly popular during Shakespeare's lifetime, both works are rarely studied today. To modern readers, the epics are meandering, dense and seemingly uneventful. But in her engaging new book, leading Shakespearean scholar Clare Asquith reveals the provocative political message that would have been obvious and compelling to Shakespeare's contemporaneous readers. Just as Lucrece had been degraded, England had been violated by a turbulent and tyrannical monarchy. Henry VIII and his successors had stolen the property and possessions of the English people and their religious institutions, making away with 25,000 square miles of land and countless priceless pieces of art, jewelry, books and more. At the heart of this cultural upheaval, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece gave England's restless and disenfranchised populous exactly what it was looking for, an authoritative historical analysis that justified and even urged direct action against the Tudors. A fascinating narrative history rooted in original scholarship and groundbreaking interpretations, Shakespeare and the Resistance is the definitive account of Shakespeare's political poems and the dramatic reactions they incited.
  note: Clare Asquith.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Poetic works
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
  subject:
    topic: Politics and literature
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: Political poetry, English
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
  classification: PR3017 .A76 2018
  classification: 821/.3
  identifier: 9781568588124
  identifier: 1568588127
  identifier: 9781568588117 (ebook)
  identifier: 2018019816
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180430
    record change date: 20190122115659.0
    record identifier: in00003992545