Description: This book shows how 'local', 'non-metropolitan' knowledges and experiences might extend our understanding of various aspects of Shakespeare's plays, using as a particular example the presentation of masculinity in the late plays.
Review Quotes:
'Local Shakespeares shows just how timid and predictable most comparative criticism is. Timid and predictable Local Shakespeares is not.' - Bruce Smith, University of Southern California, USA
'This is a lively, combative book which merits a place among the relatively few new books on Shakespeare which are worth pulling off the library shelf more than once... This is a significant critical intervention and a valuable contribution to Shakespeare studies, not least because Orkin's readings of the late plays incorporate the insights of many other fine critics, but because his own scholarship and sensitivity illuminate each of the plays with which he engages.' - Michael Jardine, Literature and History