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Author Marcus, Leah S

Title How Shakespeare Became Colonial : Editorial Tradition and the British Empire
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (177 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Frontispiece: Sir Walter A. Raleigh at the University of Aligarh; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; 1. The construction of a colonial Shakespeare; Empire and the rise of modern bibliography; The plan of the book; Notes; 2. Race and gender in the two texts of Othello; Unediting Othello; Racial contamination and Q-F difference; Orientalizing Desdemona; Notes; 3. The Shrew in colonial contexts; The induction: insulating Petruchio; Aiding and abetting Petruchio; Taming the text; Dating the play and producing a gentlemanly Shakespeare
The Shrew under the RajNotes; 4. Anti-conquest and As You Like It; Jaques and the natives; Ducdame; Shoring up the feminine; Notes; 5. Shylock and empire; Constructing the imperial Shylock; An unwritten history; Fault lines I: usury; Fault lines 2: Doctor Lopez; Speech prefixes and the science of editing; Notes; 6. Editing Shakespeare for the Raj; Early Indian editions; A new Shakespeare for India; The English Kalidas; Connections; Notes; Index
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315298160
1315298163