Shakespeare and the Institution of Theatre

Abstract

Palgrave Shakespeare Studies takes Shakespeare as its focus but strives to understand the significance of his oeuvre in relation to his contemporaries, subsequent writers and historical and political contexts. By extending the scope of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Studies the series will open up the field to examinations of previously neglected aspects or sources in the period's art and thought. Titles in the Palgrave Shakespeare Studies series seek to understand anew both where the literary achievements of the English Renaissance came from and where they have brought us.

The Masculinities of John Milton

“…Erica Sheen ascribes to Shakespeare's play "an approach to female characterization that refuses to be dutiful." 61 Silvia uses the pedagogical tools of the classroom: logic, disputation, authorities -but she also quite explicitly exemplifies and embodies her pedagogical instruction. Shakespeare's play definitely shows young people not only imitating each other but engaging in the more authoritative forms of pedagogical instruction which Jeff Dolven notes in the schoolbooks of the time: catechizing, drilling, and disputation.…”