Shakespeare on the edge

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"This book analyses works by not only Shakespeare but also his contemporaries to argue that many of the plays of Shakespeare's central period, from the second tetralogy to Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello, engage with the idea of England's borders. But borders, it claims, are not only of geopolitical significance. In Shakespeare's imagination and indeed in that of his culture, eschatological overtones also accrue to the idea of the border. This is because the countries of the Celtic fringe were often discussed in terms of the supernatural and fairy lore and, in particular, the rivers which were often used as boundary markers were invested with heavily mythologized personae."--Jacket.

subjects: Boundaries in literature,  English Historical drama,  Historical drama, English,  History and criticism,  In literature,  Islands in literature,  Tragedies,  Tragedy

People: Henry IV King of England (1367-1413),  Henry V King of England (1387-1422),  William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Places: Scottish Borders (England and Scotland),  Welsh Borders (England and Wales)