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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972091503321

Titolo

Alternative Shakespeares / / edited by John Drakakis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Methuen, 2002

ISBN

9781134445776

1134445776

9781134445790

1134445792

9780415287234

0415287235

9780203425749

020342574X

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

New accents

Alternative Shakespeares ; ; 1

Altri autori (Persone)

DrakakisJohn

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700

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 and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; Swisser-Swatter: making a man of English letters; Post-structuralist Shakespeare: text and ideology; Deconstructing Shakespeare's comedies; Sexuality in the reading of Shakespeare: Hamlet and Measure for Measure; Reading the signs: towards a semiotics of Shakespearean drama; Shakespeare in ideology; Disrupting sexual difference: meaning and gender in the comedies; Nymphs and reapers heavily vanish: the discursive con-texts of The Tempest

History and ideology: the instance of Henry VAFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a unique collection of essays by founding figures in this movement to remake Shakespeare studies. Each essay challenges the Shakespeare myth and the assumptions underlying traditional modes of criticism.