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040 _aSDU
050 0 0 _aPR3069
_bW752 W 2016
100 1 _aWilson, Richard
245 1 0 _aWorldly Shakespeare :
_bthe theatre of our good will /
_cRichard Wilson.
260 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c2016
300 _a303 p.
505 _aHKBU Library
520 _a"In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea that runs through his plays, that if 'All the world's a stage', then 'all the men and women in it' are 'merely players'. Situating this playacting in the context of current concerns about the difference between globalization and mondialisation, the book considers how this drama offers itself as a model for a planet governed not according to universal toleration, but the right to offend: 'But with good will'. For when he asks us to think we 'have but slumbered' throughout his offensive plays, Wilson suggests, Shakespeare is presenting a drama without catharsis, which anticipates post-structuralist thinkers like Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Žižek, who insist the essence of democracy is dissent, and 'the presence of two worlds in one'. Living out his scenario of the guest who destroys the host, by welcoming the religious terrorist, paranoid queen, veiled woman, papist diehard, or puritan fundamentalist into his play-world, Worldly Shakespeare concludes, the dramatist instead provides a pretext for our globalized communities in a time of Facebook and fatwa, as we also come to depend on the right to offend 'with our good will'."--
600 1 0 _aShakespeare, William,
_d1564-1616
_xCriticism and interpretation.
600 1 0 _aShakespeare, William,
_d1564-1616
_xInfluence.
_9212138
600 1 0 _aShakespeare, William,
_d1564-1616
_xThemes, motives.
_9212139
600 1 0 _aShakespeare, William,
_d1564-1616
_xPolitical and social views.
600 1 0 _aShakespeare, William,
_d1564-1616.
650 0 _aWorldliness.
_9212140
650 0 _aTheater and globalization.
_9212141
900 _a = C.1 SDU
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