From the editors.(English modern culture)

Publication: Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies

Publication Date: 22-SEP-05

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This issue of JEMCS--our pre-1660 issue for 2005--returns us to one of the journal's perennial interests: Shakespeare in particular and the early English drama in general. Recognizing the very fluid historical circumstances that underlie the theater of Renaissance England, each of the essays focuses upon the drama's ability to confront and assimilate various kinds of social ambiguity, as manifested in the human bodies that comprise the English body politic; in the vocabulary of economic advantage that binds those bodies together; in the historical narratives through which they elaborate their relations with the past; and in the models of space through which they structure...

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