TY  - BOOK
AU  - Palmer,Daryl W.
TI  - Writing Russia in the age of Shakespeare /Daryl W. Palmer
T2  - Studies in European cultural transition
SN  - 9781351870771
AV  - PR129 .W758 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English literature
KW  - Russian influences
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - This study commences with a simple question: how did Russia matter to England in the age of William Shakespeare? In order to answer the question, the author studies stories of Lapland survival, diplomatic envoys, merchant transactions, and plays for the public theaters of London. At the heart of every chapter, Shakespeare and his contemporaries are seen questioning the status of writing in English, what it can and cannot accomplish under the influence of humanism, capitalism, and early modern science. The phrase 'Writing Russia' stands for the way these English writers attempted to advance themselves by conjuring up versions of Russian life. Each man wrote out of a joint-stock arrangement, and each man's relative success and failure tells us much about the way Russia mattered to England
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