| Description |
viii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Series |
New accents |
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New accents (Routledge (Firm))
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| Contents |
1. Introduction / John Drakakis -- 2. Swisser-Swatter: making a man of English letters / Terence Hawkes -- 3. Post-structuralist Shakespeare: text and ideology / Christopher Norris -- 4. Deconstructing Shakespeare's comedies / Malcolm Evans -- 5. Sexuality in the reading of Shakespeare: Hamlet and Measure for Measure / Jacquelien Rose -- 6. Reading the signs: towards a semiotics of Shakespearean drama / Alessandro Serpieri -- 7. Shakespeare in ideology / James H. Kavanagh -- 8. Disrupting sexual difference: meaning and gender in the comedies / Catherine Belsey -- 9. Nymphs and reapers heavily vanish: the discursive con-texts of The Tempest / Francis Barker and Peter Hulme -- 10. History and ideology: the instance of Henry V / Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield -- Afterword / Robert Weimann |
| Summary |
Alternative Shakespeares, published in 1985, shook up the world of Shakespearean studies, demythologising Shakespeare and applying new theories to the study of his work. This book provides an updated analysis of Shakespearean studies |
| Notes |
Cover title states 'Alternative Shakespeares : Volume 2.' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Author |
Drakakis, John.
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| LC no. |
2002073951 |
| ISBN |
0415287227 |
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0415287235 (pb.) |
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