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Author Palmer, Daryl W., author.

Title Writing Russia in the age of Shakespeare / Daryl W. Palmer
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in European cultural transition ; v. 22
Studies in European cultural transition ; v. 22.
Contents 1. Inventing the venture : England and Russia at mid-century -- 2. Ivan IV, Elizabeth I, and the dispatch of Anthony Jenkinson -- 3. Writing the envoy : William Shakespeare's Love labour's lost and the reasons against reading -- 4. Writing large : the case of Jerome Horsey, individualist -- 5. Writing Ardor : the submissions of Giles Fletcher -- 6. 'With the Emperor of Russia' : subjection and withdrawal in William Shakespeare's Measure for measure -- 7. Imperial tyranny and the daughter's seclusion in William Shakespeare's The winter's tale -- 8. The King's men's version of Muscovy : John Fletcher's The loyal subject
Summary This study commences with a simple question: how did Russia matter to England in the age of William Shakespeare? In order to answer the question, the author studies stories of Lapland survival, diplomatic envoys, merchant transactions, and plays for the public theaters of London. At the heart of every chapter, Shakespeare and his contemporaries are seen questioning the status of writing in English, what it can and cannot accomplish under the influence of humanism, capitalism, and early modern science. The phrase 'Writing Russia' stands for the way these English writers attempted to advance themselves by conjuring up versions of Russian life. Each man wrote out of a joint-stock arrangement, and each man's relative success and failure tells us much about the way Russia mattered to England
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject English literature -- Russian influences.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Public opinion -- England -- History -- 16th century
Public opinion -- England -- History -- 17th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Early modern
English literature -- Russian influences
International relations
Literature
Public opinion
Public opinion, British
SUBJECT Russia -- Foreign public opinion, British
Great Britain -- Relations -- Russia
Russia -- Relations -- Great Britain
Russia -- In literature
Subject Russia
England
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351870771
1351870777
9781315233345
1315233347