| Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life Contributor(s): Lupton, Julia Reinhard (Author) |
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ISBN: 022654091X ISBN-13: 9780226540917 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare - History | Europe - Great Britain - Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| LCCN: 2017038263 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Great halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside shelters--these are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard Lupton enters Shakespeare's dwelling places in search of insights into the most fundamental human problems. Focusing on five works (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale), Lupton remakes the concept of dwelling by drawing on a variety of sources, including modern design theory, Renaissance treatises on husbandry and housekeeping, and the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. The resulting synthesis not only offers a new entry point into the contemporary study of environments; it also shows how Shakespeare's works help us continue to make sense of our primal creaturely need for shelter. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lupton, Julia Reinhard: - Julia Reinhard Lupton is professor of English and comparative literature and associate dean for research in the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life, Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature and coauthor of After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis. |