Misrepresentations : Shakespeare and the Materialists / Graham Bradshaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradshaw, Graham, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation--History--20th century.

Materialism.

Literature and anthropology.

Criticism--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Historical criticism (Literature).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 322 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Just at the moment when conflicts between critical "isms" are threatening to turn the study of English literature into a game park for endangered texts, Bradshaw arrives with a work of liberating wit and insight. His subject is double: the Shakespeare he reads and the Shakespeare whom critics in the ranks of the new historicists and cultural materialists are representing (or misrepresenting).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Text

PROLOGUE. Is Shakespeare Evil

CHAPTER ONE. Being Oneself: New Historicists, Cultural Materialists, and Henry V

CHAPTER TWO. Dramatic Intentions: Two-Timing in Shakespeare's Venice

EPILOGUE. The New Historicist as Iago

APPENDIX. Dashing Othello's Spirits

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9781501722301

1501722301

OCLC:

1080549533