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Book SynopsisIn Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater world of Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility.
Trade ReviewThe sense of discovery and surprise, alive in Levin and Watkins's presentation, gives the reader the old-fashioned pleasure of a detective story and, more important, makes tangible the historical specificities and stakes involved in the social constructions of gender and race that haunt immigration policies and globalization strategies in the EU and the US. In doing so, Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds powerfully de-essentializes those constructions.... This book stands at the beginning of a sea change in the enactment of interdisciplinarity.
-- Marguerite Waller * Modern Language Quarterly *
This interdisciplinary book, which comprises pairs of essays on 1 Henry VI, The Merchant of Venice, and The Taming of the Shrew, exemplifies new historicism at its best.... The essays are beautifully written, cogently argued, and meticulously researched. Recommended.
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