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Publication details [#7941]
González, Jose Manuel, Holger Michael Klein and M.M. Jacobsen, eds. 2002. Shakespeare and Spain (Shakespeare Yearbook 13). Lewinston: Lampeter. 560 pp.
Publication type
Edited volume
Publication language
English
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Source language
Target language
Person as a subject
Main ISBN
0-7734-6981-8
Abstract
This volume discusses how the picture of Spanish Shakespeare has been greatly conditioned by the culture in which he was misappropriated in particular forms. Shakespeare's reception has been a process of acculturation which includes assimilation, cultural fusion, and a new synthesis in cultural elements. Culture has become a clue to understanding the rise and growth of Shakespeare in Spain where he represented a literary otherness which threatned the essence of Spanish culture, as he "merely continues to signify Englishness".
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