Citizen Shakespeare: Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays

224 Pages·2005·0.87 MB·English

by  John Michael Archer

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Ivo Kamps, Series Editor
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CITIZENSHAKESPEARE
© John Michael Archer,2005.
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To the memory of my father,
Alfred Archer
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Acknowledgments ix
Editor’s Preface for John Archer’s Citizen
Shakespeare: Freemen and Aliens
in the Language of the Plays xi
Introduction 1
1 Comedy: Civil Sayings 23
2 History: Civil Butchery 71
3 Tragedy: What Rome? 121
Notes 169
Works Cited 193
Index 203
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cknowledgments
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M
y thanks to the University of New Hampshire, which provided
me with financial support through the Hortense Cavis Shepherd
Professorship and a Senior Faculty Fellowship at the Center for the
Humanities during the completion of this book. I would also like to
thank my former colleagues in early modern literary studies at the
University of New Hampshire: Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, Elizabeth H.
Hageman, Douglas M. Lanier, and Rachel J. Trubowitz. I owe a par-
ticular debt to Jean E. Howard, a former colleague at Columbia
University, for many fruitful conversations on the topic of this book
over the years. I am grateful to Richard Helgerson, who read the
manuscript for Palgrave and offered some indispensable suggestions
about the ends of Citizen Shakespeare. And a special thanks goes
to Ivo Kamps, my series editor, who saw the project through to
completion from an early stage.