Charnes, Linda — Notorious Identity - Materializing The Subject In Shakespeare

Harvard University Press 1995 2nd impression. Paperback, F. xiv+213pp, index, a nice fine copy. New. Study of Shakespeares use of characters such as Richard III and Cleopatra - figures that had a notoriety well before he used them as central characters in his plays. The book also looks at the significance of the identity of these figures in the emerging early modern England.