
Shakespeare's Knowledgeable Body
Martha Kalnin Diede(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 5. February 2008
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-1-4331-0133-5 (ISBN)
Description
Taking a new approach to the metaphor of the political body, this book examines Shakespeare's representation of that body as possessing epistemological faculties. The theater is one of these faculties, and is, therefore, essential to the health and survival of the Early Modern state. By depicting the theater as an essential faculty of the body politic, Shakespeare offers a defense of the theater against anti-theatrical critics. Students and teachers interested in the body and its representations in literature will find this text illuminating as will those scholars whose work focuses on knowledge, its relationship to the body, ways of knowing, and anti-theatrical prejudice.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
418 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4331-0133-5 (9781433101335)
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-0320-9
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Person
The Author: Martha Kalnin Diede teaches literature and writing at a private university in the Pacific Northwest. She has contributed to several reference volumes and has published as a medical technical writer. Diede also wrote (with Peter G. Beidler) the online indexed bibliography of The Chaucer Review. She holds a Ph.D. in Shakespeare from Baylor University.