Marxist Shakespeares / edited by Jean E. Howard and Scott Cutler Shershow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howard, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1948-

Shershow, Scott Cutler, 1953-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Accents on Shakespeare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Political and social views.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Political and social views.

Literature and society--England--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

England.

History.

Women and literature--England--History--16th century.

Women and literature.

Marxist criticism.

Local Subjects:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Political and social views.

Physical Description:

xii, 304 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Summary:

"Marxist Shakespeares" uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh. The essays collected here reveal the continuing power of Marxist thought to address many issues including: * the relationship of texts to social class * the historical construction of the aesthetic * the utopian dimensions of literary production. This book offers new insights into the historical conditions within which Shakespeare's representations of class and gender emerged, and into Shakespeare's role in the global culture industry stretching from Hollywood to the Globe Theatre. "Marxist Shakespeares" will be a vital resource for students of Shakespeare as it examines Marx's own readings of Shakespeare, Derrida's engagement with Marx, and the importance of Bourdieu, Bataille, Negri, and Alice Clark with a continuing tradition of Marxist thought.

Contents:

Introduction : Marxism now, Shakespeare now / Jean E. Howard and Scott Cutler Shershow

"Well grubbed, old mole" : Marx, Hamlet, and the (un)fixing of representation / Peter Stallybrass

An impure history of ghosts : Derrida, Marx, Shakespeare / Richard Halpern

Looking well to linens : women and cultural production in Othello and Shakespeare's England / Dympna Callaghan

"Judicious oeillades" : supervising marital property in The merry wives of Windsor / Natasha Korda

the rape of jesus : Aemilia Lanyer's Lyucrece / Barbara E. Bowen

The undiscovered country : Shakespeare and mercantile geography / Walter Cohen

The management of mirth : Shakespeare via Bourdieu / Richard Wilson

Shakespeare's Globe? / Crystal Bartolovich

The Shakespeare film and the Americanization of culture / Denise Albanese

Measure for measure : Marxism before Marx / Kiernan Ryan

Shakespeare beyond Shakespeare / Scott Cutler Shershow.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-285) and index.

ISBN:

0415202337

0415202345

OCLC:

44045529