| Description |
vi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jean E. Howard and Marion F. O'Connor -- Political criticism of Shakespeare / Walter Cohen -- Power, politics, and the Shakespearean text : recent criticism in England and the United States / Don E. Wayne -- Theatre of the empire : "Shakespeare's England" at Earl's court, 1912 / Marion F. O'Connor -- Prospero in Africa : The tempest as colonialist text and pretext / Thomas Cartelli -- The order of the garter, the cult of Elizabeth, and class-gender tension in The merry wives of Windsor / Peter Erickson -- "And wash the Ethiop white" : femininity and the monstrous in Othello / Karen Newman -- Renaissance antitheatricality and the politics of gender and rank in Much ado about nothing / Jean E. Howard -- "Which is the merchant here? and which the Jew?" : subversion and recuperation on The merchant of Venice / Thomas Moisan -- Lenten butchery : legitimation crisis in Coriolanus / Michael D. Bristol -- The failure of orthodoxy in Coriolanus / Thomas Sorge -- Speculations : Macbeth and source / Jonathan Goldberg -- Towards a literary theory of ideology : mimesis, representation, authority / Robert Weimann -- Afterword / Margaret Ferguson |
| Notes |
Papers from the 3rd Congress of the International Shakespeare Association, held in West Berlin, April 1986 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views -- Congresses.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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Historicism -- Congresses.
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Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses.
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses.
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Politics in literature -- Congresses.
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Politics in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Howard, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1948-
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O'Connor, Marion F
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International Shakespeare Association. Congress (3rd : 1986 : Berlin, Germany)
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International Shakespeare Association. Congress (1986 : Berlin, Germany)
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| LC no. |
87014135 |
| ISBN |
0416009220 |
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0416009328 (paperback) |
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