Shakespeare in theory and practice / Catherine Belsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belsey, Catherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

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

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