Essaying Shakespeare / Karen Newman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newman, Karen, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For more than twenty-five years, Karen Newman has brought her critical acumen to bear on early modern studies. In this collection of her essays on Shakespeare-some acknowledged classics and others never before published-Newman shows how changing theoretical trends have shaped Shakespeare studies, from new historicism and gender studies to critical race studies and globalization.Central to Newman's work is social exchange, or the circulation of people and objects. At least two of these essays have had a powerful and lasting impact on Shakespeare studies: "Renaissance Family Politics and Shakesp

Contents:

Myrrha's revenge: Ovid and Shakespeare's reluctant Adonis

Hayman's missing Hamlet

Renaissance family politics and Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew

And wash the ethiop white: femininity and the monstrous in Othello

Portia's ring: gender, sexuality, and theories of exchange in The merchant of Venice

Ghostwriting: Hamlet and Claude Chabrol's Ophilia

Englishing the other: Le tiers exclu and Shakespeare's Henry V

Cultural capital's gold standard: Shakespeare and the critical apostrophe in Renaissance studies

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Sartorial economies and suitable style: the anonymous woodstock and Shakespeare's Richard II

French Shakespeare: Dryden, Vigny's Othello, and British cultural expansion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-188) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6809-4

OCLC:

670429585