Shakespeare Reproduced

The text in history and ideology
Herausgeber: Howard, Jean E; O'Connor, Marion F

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in Shakespeare Reproduced offer a political critique of Shakespeare's writings and the uses to which those writings are put

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780415493109
• ISBN-10: 0415493102
• Artikelnr.: 26679002

Autorenporträt

Jean E Howard, Marion F O'Connor

Inhaltsangabe

1. Political criticism of Shakespeare 2. Power, politics, and the
Shakespearean text: recent criticism in England and the United States 3.
Theatre of the Empire: Shakespeare's England at Earl's Court, 1912 4.
Prospero in Africa: The Tempest as colonialist text and pretext 5. The
Order of the Garter, the cult of Elizabeth, and class-gender tension in The
Merry Wives of Windsor 6. And wash the Ethiop white: femininity and the
monstrous in Othello 7. Renaissance antitheatricality and the politics of
gender and rank in Much Ado About Nothing 8. Which is the merchant here?
And which the Jew?: subversion and recuperation in The Merchant of Venice
9. Lenten butchery: legitimation crisis in Coriolanus 10. The failure of
orthodoxy in Coriolanus 11. Speculations: Macbeth and source 12. Towards a
literary theory of ideology: mimesis, representation, authority