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Shakespeare: Out of Court

Dramatizations of Court Society

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Graham Holderness
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  2. Nick Potter
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  3. John Turner
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Part of the book series: Contemporary Interpretations of Shakespeare (CIS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • John Turner
      Pages 1-12

  3. The Court and the New Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Prologue: ‘Of Studies’ and Play

      • Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, John Turner
      Pages 15-18

    3. Love’s Labour’s Lost: The Court at Play

      • Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, John Turner
      Pages 19-48

    4. Hamlet: The Court in Transition (I)

      • Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, John Turner
      Pages 49-79

  4. Idealized Courts and Dreams of Freedom

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Wildness and Wilderness: Alternatives to Courtly Life

      • Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, John Turner
      Pages 83-85

    3. As You Like It: The Outlaw Court

      • Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, John Turner
      Pages 86-104

    4. Twelfth Night: The Court in Transition (II)

      • Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, John Turner
      Pages 105-121

    5. Afterword: ‘For the Rain it Raineth Every Day’

      • Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, John Turner
      Pages 122-125

  5. Late Romances: Magic, Majesty and Masque

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Introduction: Theatre and Court

      • Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, John Turner
      Pages 129-135

    3. The Tempest: Spectacles of Disenchantment

      • Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, John Turner
      Pages 136-194

    4. The Winter’s Tale: Country into Court

      • Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, John Turner
      Pages 195-235

  6. Endgames

    1. Endgames

      • Graham Holderness
      Pages 236-248

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 249-266
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This book examines six plays by Shakespeare (Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest) as dramatizations of the Renaissance court in its developing history - a history searched by Shakespeare to disclose its most characteristic gains and losses. For these plays do not simply celebrate Tudor and Stuart rule: they scrutinize it too, in the centre of its institutional theatre of power, the court. This book shows how, if the plays came into the court, the court also came into the plays, with its most salient features - its competitiveness, its inner tensions and its contradictions, its language, its cultural life and its entertainments - exposed to the scrutiny of an art-form that proved itself to be a new mode of historical understanding.

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