A clear introduction to the idea of the canon, exploring the process by which certain works, and not others, receive high cultural status. The work of Shakespeare and Aphra Behn is used to illustrate and challenge this process.
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W. R. Owens and Lizbeth Goodman are Lecturers in English at the Open University, London.
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This review is from: Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon (Approaching Literature) (Paperback)
iv just finished reading this book as part of my ou literature course,if you want an easy read go elsewhere, however if your pretty inteligent and you really want to learn about shakespeare and aprha behn then this is the right book.beware reading this could change your life.
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If you have already come across a definition of 'the canon', it may have been something like 'those works of literature that are considered especially worth studying'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
masquing habit, extravagant rake, jowl production, banishment scene, brief mortality, mad fellow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Duke Frederick, Aphra Behn, Don Pedro, Trevor White, Open University, Don Antonio, Lizbeth Goodman, Andy Serkis, Don Vincentio, Duke Senior, Enter Belvile, Jules Wright, Amanda Willett, Angellica Bianca, Cambridge University Press, Enter Florinda, First Lord, King Lear, Ned Blunt, Oxford University Press, Cecilia Noble, Dorset Garden, Kobal Collection, Laurence Olivier, William Shakespeare New!
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If you have already come across a definition of 'the canon', it may have been something like 'those works of literature that are considered especially worth studying'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
masquing habit, extravagant rake, jowl production, banishment scene, brief mortality, mad fellow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Duke Frederick, Aphra Behn, Don Pedro, Trevor White, Open University, Don Antonio, Lizbeth Goodman, Andy Serkis, Don Vincentio, Duke Senior, Enter Belvile, Jules Wright, Amanda Willett, Angellica Bianca, Cambridge University Press, Enter Florinda, First Lord, King Lear, Ned Blunt, Oxford University Press, Cecilia Noble, Dorset Garden, Kobal Collection, Laurence Olivier, William Shakespeare New!
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- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
- As She Likes It: Shakespeare's Unruly Women (Gender in Performance) by Penny Gay on 6 pages
- Reconstructing Aphra: Social Biography of Aphra Behn by Angeline Goreau on 5 pages
- The Common Pursuit (Pelican) by F.R. Leavis on 4 pages
- King Henry (Structural Readers) by William Shakespeare on 4 pages
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- Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre: Women's Comedy and the Theatre (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama) by Nancy Copeland in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women and Race in Early Modern Texts by Joyce Green MacDonald on page 149, and Back Matter
- Shakespeare Survey (Volume 50) by Stanley Wells on page 256
- As You Like It (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare in Front Matter
- The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance by Lizbeth Goodman in Back Matter
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