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Unfinished Romance

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Abstract

The previous chapter argued that Shakespeare sought to detach Europe from a hybrid Mediterranean world, offering in the narrative of return that concludes The Tempest a fantasy of withdrawal, a divorce from the cultural center of the ancient and medieval world. This ideological work manifests itself in his plays as a transformation of romance: in Shakespeare’s successive rewritings of romance I tried to register the complex processes through which an increasingly racialized understanding of identity emerged from within the literary fictions of a troubled Christendom.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEarly Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages87-115
Number of pages29
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007

Publication series

NameEarly Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
ISSN (Print)2634-5897
ISSN (Electronic)2634-5900

Keywords

  • Early Modern Period
  • Islamic World
  • Literary Fiction
  • Political Life
  • Religious Tolerance

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