Title Political Shakespeare : essays in cultural materialism / edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield

Edition Second edition Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994

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MELB	820.33 Z532 D6655 1994		AVAILABLE

Description viii, 295 pages ; 23 cm Series Cornell paperbacks Cornell paperbacks. Contents 1. Introduction: Shakespeare, cultural materialism and the new historicism / Jonathan Dollimore -- 2. Invisible bullets: Renaissance authority and its subversion, Henry IV and Henry V / Stephen Greenblatt -- 3. 'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': The Tempest and the discourse of colonialism / Paul Brown -- 4. Transgression and surveillance in Measure for Measure / Jonathan Dollimore -- 5. The patriarchal bard: feminist criticism and Shakespeare: King Lear and Measure for Measure / Kathleen McLuskie -- 6. Strategies of State and political plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VIII / Leonard Tennenhouse -- 7. Shakespeare understudies: the sodomite, the prostitute, the transvestite and their critics / Jonathan Dollimore -- 8. Introduction: Reproductions, interventions / Alan Sinfield 9. Give an account of Shakespeare and Education, showing why you think they are effective and what you have appreciated about them. Support your comments with precise references / Alan Sinfield -- 10. Royal Shakespeare: theatre and the making of ideology / Alan Sinfield -- 11. Radical potentiality and institutional closure: Shakespeare in film and television / Graham Holderness -- 12. How Brecht read Shakespeare / Margot Heinemann -- 13. Heritage and the market, regulation and desublimation / Alan Sinfield -- Afterword / Raymond Williams Analysis Authority in literature Political plays, English History and criticism Politics and literature History 16th century Great Britain Politics and literature History 17th century Great Britain Shakespeare, William Political and social views Social change in literature Notes Earlier ed. has subtitle: new essays in cultural materialism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views. Authority in literature. Political plays, English -- History and criticism. Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century. Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century. Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. Social change in literature. Author Dollimore, Jonathan. Sinfield, Alan. LC no. 94015983 ISBN 0801430917 0801482437 (paperback)

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