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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782017303321

Autore

Belsey Catherine

Titolo

Shakespeare in theory and practice / / Catherine Belsey [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2008

ISBN

0-7486-5223-X

1-281-78582-2

9786611785826

0-7486-3215-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 207 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

HI 3325

Disciplina

822.33

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.