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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- I: Shakespeare and the Early Modern North -- 1. Shakespeare's Northern Blood: Transfusing Gorboduc into Macbeth and Cymbeline -- 2. 'Here are strangers near at hand': Anglo-Scottish Border Crossings Pre- and Post-Union -- 3. Shakespeare, King James and the Northern Yorkists -- 4. North by Northwest: Shakespeare's Shifting Frontier -- II: Performing Shakespeare in the North -- 5. The People's Shakespeare: Place, Politics and Performance in a Northern Amateur Theatre |
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6. Only Northerners Need Apply? Northern Broadsides and 'No-nonsense' Shakespeare -- 7. Shakespeare and Blackpool: The RSC's A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016): A Play for the Nation? -- 8. William the Conqueror: The Only Shakescene in a Country -- III: Appropriating Shakespeare in the North -- 9. 'What is Shakespeare to Manchester'? Shakespearean Engagement in the North at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- 10. A Road by Any Other Name: Heaton History Group, a North East Suburb and Shakespeare -- 11. Lancastrian Shakespeares: Hamlet and King Lear in North West England (2005-2014) |
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12. Shakespeare's Cheek: Macbeth, Dunsinane and the Jacobean Condition -- Postscript: News from the North -- Index |
| Summary |
This exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- England, Northern
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Scotland
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. fast (OCoLC)fst00029048 |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Literature.
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| SUBJECT |
England, Northern -- In literature
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Scotland -- In literature
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Northern England.
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Scotland.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hansen, Adam, editor
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| ISBN |
9781474435949 |
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1474435947 |
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9781474435956 |
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1474435955 |
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