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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451211403321

Titolo

Marxist Shakespeares / / edited by Jean E. Howard and Scott Cutler Shershow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2001

ISBN

0-203-18991-4

1-134-63305-X

1-280-35439-9

0-203-13118-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Accents on Shakespeare

Altri autori (Persone)

HowardJean E <1948-> (Jean Elizabeth)

ShershowScott Cutler <1953->

Disciplina

822.33

Soggetti

Literature and society

Literature and society - England - History - 16th

Marxist criticism

Shakespeare, William

Women and literature

Literature and society - History - 16th century - England

Women and literature - History - 16th century - England

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-285) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Marxist Shakespeares; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; General editor's preface; 1 Introduction: Marxism now, Shakespeare now; 2 "Well grubbed, old mole": Marx, Hamlet, and the (un)fixing of representation; 3 An impure history of ghosts: Derrida, Marx, Shakespeare; 4 Looking well to linens: women and cultural production in Othello and Shakespeare's England; 5 "Judicious oeillades": supervising marital property in The Merry Wives of Windsor; 6 The rape of Jesus: Aemilia Lanyer's Lucrece; 7 The undiscovered



country: Shakespeare and mercantile geography

8 The management of mirth: Shakespeare via Bourdieu9 Shakespeare's Globe?; 10 The Shakespeare film and the Americanization of culture; 11 Measure for Measure: Marxism before Marx; 12 Shakespeare beyond Shakespeare; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh.