Shakespeare and Literary Spatial Studies: Court, city and the forest
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https://doi.org/10.5902/2176148584545Keywords:
Spatial Studies, William Shakespeare, Theatre, A Midsummer Night’s DreamAbstract
Spatial Studies are an important critical development for specialised literary analysis. Native to the branches of the Humanities, such as philosophy, architecture and geography, its application to texts, such as novels, plays, short stories, enrich their cultural appreciation. This article introduces Spatial Studies to scholars and students interested in Shakespeare and/or Literary Criticism. Starting with a theoretical introduction, which remains within the limits of Henri Lefebvre’s concept of ‘social space’ (1991 [1974]), this article explores the different comprehensions of the concepts of space in early modern England period, which is followed by an account of different theatres and performative practices of Shakespeare’s plays, concluding with a spatial overview in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1596), which is one of his most accessible plays.
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