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Alternative Shakespeares / edited by John Drakakis.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New accents (Methuen & Co.)
- New accents (Routledge (Firm))
- New accents
- Alternative Shakespeares ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Methuen, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is a unique collection of essays by founding figures in this movement to remake Shakespeare studies. Each essay challenges the Shakespeare myth and the assumptions underlying traditional modes of criticism.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; Swisser-Swatter: making a man of English letters; Post-structuralist Shakespeare: text and ideology; Deconstructing Shakespeare's comedies; Sexuality in the reading of Shakespeare: Hamlet and Measure for Measure; Reading the signs: towards a semiotics of Shakespearean drama; Shakespeare in ideology; Disrupting sexual difference: meaning and gender in the comedies; Nymphs and reapers heavily vanish: the discursive con-texts of The Tempest
- History and ideology: the instance of Henry VAFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781134445776
- 1134445776
- 9781134445790
- 1134445792
- 9780415287234
- 0415287235
- 9780203425749
- 020342574X
- OCLC:
- 56325806
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