Shakespeares Cross Cultural Encounters
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publish date: 02/01/2002
Description:
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. De Sousa argues that by refashioning stage aliens such as Jews, Moors, Amazons, and gypsies, Shakespeare interrogates a Eurocentric perspective and the caricatures 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.
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