04414nam 2200841 450 991045627240332120200520144314.01-281-99448-097866119944881-4426-7968-910.3138/9781442679689(CKB)2430000000001880(OCoLC)666901004(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218927(SSID)ssj0000309073(PQKBManifestationID)11227402(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000309073(PQKBWorkID)10265211(PQKB)10264696(CaBNvSL)thg00600971 (MiAaPQ)EBC3255022(MiAaPQ)EBC4671939(DE-B1597)464851(OCoLC)1013937432(OCoLC)944177630(DE-B1597)9781442679689(Au-PeEL)EBL4671939(CaPaEBR)ebr11257627(OCoLC)958581253(EXLCZ)99243000000000188020160914h20032003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSearching Shakespeare studies in culture and authority /Derek CohenToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2003.©20031 online resource (212 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-8778-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I -- CHAPTER ONE. Tragedy and the Nation: Othello -- CHAPTER TWO. History and the Nation: The Second Tetralogy -- CHAPTER THREE. Slave Voices: Caliban and Ariel -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Scapegoat Mechanism: Shylock and Caliban -- PART II -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Self-Representations of Othello -- CHAPTER SIX. King Lear and Memory -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Past of Macbeth -- PART III -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Messengers of Death: The Figure of the Hit Man -- CHAPTER NINE. 'Noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd':1 Broken Human Bodies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexOriginal in topic and approach, Searching Shakespeare presents a political-historical exploration of Shakespeare's drama, examining the plays in the context of current ideological concerns ? history, memory, marginality, and nationalism. Derek Cohen predicates his argument on the supposition that the individual, as much as the encompassing state, is subject to the shaping forces and machinery of the ideological surround.Shakespeare's plays, Cohen argues, consistently portray the clash between the passionate search for individuality and the quest for social harmony as irresolvable. The playwright's uncanny ability to carry the reader to the edge of imaginary experience ? far from the literal world that is made visible by the text ? offers an entry into the subtextual and ironic underside of the dramas. It is in this dark and strange world of slavery, mutilation, sexual jealousy, and suborned murder that the implicit political biases of the plays are most evident and it is here, too, that a modern political analysis reveals why Shakespeare portrayed the quest for individuation and self-expression as necessarily ending in tragedy.National characteristics, English, in literaturePolitics and literatureGreat BritainNationalism and literatureEnglandLiterature and societyEnglandLiterature and historyEnglandIndividuality in literatureAuthority in literatureCulture in literatureTragedyElectronic books.National characteristics, English, in literature.Politics and literatureNationalism and literatureLiterature and societyLiterature and historyIndividuality in literature.Authority in literature.Culture in literature.Tragedy.822.33Cohen Derek460787MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456272403321Searching Shakespeare2450917UNINA