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Shakespeare in theory and practice / Catherine Belsey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belsey, Catherine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 207 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In these essays brought together here for the first time world-renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction.
- Contents:
- Introduction: practising with theory
- Psychoanalysis and early modern culture: Lacan with Augustine and Montaigne
- Love as trompe-l'oeil: taxonomies of desire in Venus and Adonis
- Tarquin dispossessed: expropriation and consent in The rape of Lucrece
- Antinomies of desire and the sonnets
- Peter Quince's ballad: memory, psychoanalysis, history and A midsummer night's dream
- The illusion of empire: Elizabethan expansionism and Shakespeare's second tetralogy
- Making histories then and now: Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V
- The case of Hamlet's conscience
- Iago the essayist.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-5223-X
- 1-281-78582-2
- 9786611785826
- 0-7486-3215-8
- OCLC:
- 437233427
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