Shakespeare and Modernity Early Modern to Millennium

This exciting collection of essays traces the changing reception of Shakespeare over the past four hundred years. Along the way it provides fascinating insights into: the nature of individuality, identity, and the self the inter-relations of the rise of capitalism, nation-states, and secular culture the sexual division of labour and gender identity the beginnings of Western colonialism, racism, and anti-Semitism. This fresh look at Shakespeares plays is an important contribution to the revival of the idea of modernity and how we periodise ourselves, and Shakespeare, at the beginning of a new millennium.>Grady, Hugh is the author of 'Shakespeare and Modernity Early Modern to Millennium' with ISBN 9780415212014 and ISBN 0415212014.