Shakespeare's foreign worlds : national and transnational identities in the Elizabethan age / Carole Levin and John Watkins.

Author: Levin, Carole, 1948-

Imprint:Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2009.

Description217 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Gender, punishment, and peace-making in 1 Henry VI. Murder not then the fruit within my womb: Shakespeare's Joan, Foxe's Guernsey martyr, and women pleading pregnancy in English history and culture -- Shakespeare's 1 Henry VI and the tragedy of Renaissance diplomacy -- Aliens in our midst: Jews, Italians, and wary englishmen in the merchant of Vinice. Converting the daughter: gender, power, and Jewish identity in the English Renaissance -- Shakespeare and the decline of the Venetian Republic -- Dangerous reading in the taming of the shrew. Many different Kates: taming shrews and queens -- Shakespeare and the women writers of the Veneto.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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