| Description |
viii, 295 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Shakespeare, cultural materialiams and the new historicism / Jonathan Dollimore -- Invisible bullets: Renaissance authority and its subversion, Henry IV and Henry V / Stephen Greenblatt -- 'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': The tempest and the discourse of colonialism / Paul Brown -- Transgression and surveillance in Measure for measure / Jonathan Dollimore -- The patriarchal bard: feminist criticism and Shakespeare: King Lear and Measure for measure / Kathleen McLuskie -- Strategies of state and political plays: A midsummer night's dream, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VIII / Leonard Tennenhouse -- Shakespeare understudies: the sodomite, the prostitute, the transvestite and their critics / Jonathan Dollimore -- Introduction: Reproductions, interventions / Alan Sinfield -- 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 -- Royal Shakespeare: theatre and the making of ideology / Alan Sinfield -- Radical potentiality and institutional closure: Shakespeare in film and television / Graham Holderness -- how Brecht read Shakespeare / Margot Heinemann -- Heritage and the market, regulation and desublimation / Alan Sinfield -- Afterword / Raymond Williams |
| Analysis |
English drama |
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English drama |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1985 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Literature and society.
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Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Political plays, English -- History and criticism.
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Social change in literature.
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Authority in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Author |
Dollimore, Jonathan.
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Sinfield, Alan.
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| ISBN |
0719043522 paperback |
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0719043514 cased |
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