Shakespeare's History Plays : Rethinking Historicism / / Neema Parvini

• Autore: Parvini Neema
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh University Press, 2012; Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2012; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 822.33
• Soggetto topico: Literary Criticism / Shakespeare; Literature - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: Literature; Henry VI of England; Ideology; Louis Althusser; Richard II of England; Shakespearean history; William Shakespeare
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-235) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: New historicism -- Cultural materialism -- An argument against anti-humanism -- Solutions -- Shakespeare's historical and political thought in context -- Personal action and agency in Henry VI -- Ideology in Richard II and Henry IV.
• Sommario/riassunto: Boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approachesThis important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing
• Titolo autorizzato: Shakespeare's history plays
• ISBN: 1-4744-2354-X; 0-7486-4614-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910166653103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II