Shakespeare and Genre From Early Modern Inheritances to Postmodern L

Provides a comprehensive survey of approaches to genre in Shakespeare's work. Contributors probe deeply into genre theory and genre history by relating Renaissance conceptions. In this sense, the volume proposes to read Shakespeare through genre and, just

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Shakespeare and Genre

10.1057/9781137010353 - Shakespeare and Genre, Edited by Anthony R. Guneratne

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From Early Modern Inheritances to Postmodern Legacies

Edited By ANTHONY R. GUNERATNE

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Shakespeare and Genre

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SHAKESPEARE AND GENRE

Copyright © Anthony R. Guneratne, 2011. All rights reserved.

Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–0–230–10898–1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shakespeare and genre : from early modern inheritances to postmodern legacies / edited by Anthony R. Guneratne. p. cm. ISBN-13: 978–0–230–10898–1 ISBN-10: 0–230–10898–9 1. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—Literary style. 2. English language—Early modern, 1500–1700—Style. 3. Literary form. 4. Postmodernism (Literature) I. Guneratne, Anthony R. PR3072.S34 2011 822.3⬘3—dc23

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for you David Frasier, who have sent perhaps a thousand books and articles to whatever edge of the earth I happened to be clinging;

for you Elizabeth Shadigian, who have advised me for some thirty years and who once flew to Florida to rescue me from the state I then was in;

for you Lisa Cain, who have shared so much of your time and good humor, and so many of New York’s boundless treasures with me;

and, most of all, for you Michelle Brown, who more than once helped me steer clear of life’s grand canyons and minor molehills—had I but known what you would have to endure with such gentleness and courage, I would have found the strength to level