{"product_id":"four-shakespearean-period-pieces-hardcover","title":"Four Shakespearean Period Pieces - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMargreta de Grazia\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the study of Shakespeare since the eighteenth century, four key concepts have served to situate Shakespeare in history: chronology, periodization, secularization, and anachronism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yet recent theoretical work has called for their reappraisal. Anachronisms, previously condemned as errors in the order of time, are being hailed as alternatives to that order. Conversely chronology and periods, its mainstays, are now charged with having distorted the past they have been entrusted to represent, and secularization, once considered the driving force of the modern era, no longer holds sway over the past or the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In light of this reappraisal, can Shakespeare studies continue unshaken? This is the question \u003ci\u003eFour Shakespearean Period Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e takes up, devoting a chapter to each term: on the rise of anachronism, the chronologizing of the canon, the staging of plays \"in period,\" and the use of Shakespeare in modernity's secularizing project. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To read these chapters is to come away newly alert to how these fraught concepts have served to regulate the canon's afterlife. Margreta de Grazia does not entirely abandon them but deftly works around and against them to offer fresh insights on the reading, editing, and staging of the author at the heart of our literary canon.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargreta de Grazia\u003c\/b\u003e is emerita Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e 'Hamlet' without Hamlet\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 03, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101467676807,"sku":"9780226785196","price":185.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/fef386778dad547044aa549a7b814040.webp?v=1732394473","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/four-shakespearean-period-pieces-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}