| Description |
xix, 930 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Looney and the Oxfordians / S. Schoenbaum -- The naked babe and the cloak of manliness / Cleanth Brooks -- "Honest" in Othello / William Empson -- "Introductory" chapter about the tragedies / Wolfgang Clemen -- The "new criticism" and King Lear / William R. Keast -- The argument of comedy / Northrop Frye -- Ambivalence: the dialectic of the histories / A.P. Rossiter -- The Saturnalian pattern / C.L. Barber -- The Jacobean Shakespeare: some observations on the construction of the tragedies / Maynard Mack -- Reflections on the sentimentalist's Othello / Barbara Everett -- Form and formality in Romeo and Juliet / Harry Levin -- King Lear or Endgame / Jan Kott -- The cheapening of the stage / Anne Righter [Barton] -- How not to murder Caesar / Sigurd Burckhardt -- On the value of Hamlet / Stephen Booth -- Rabbits, ducks, and Henry V / Norman Rabkin -- The new textual criticism of Shakespeare / Fredson Bowers -- Revising Shakespeare / Gary Taylor -- Narrative about printed Shakespeare texts: "Foul papers" and "Bad quartos" / Paul Werstine -- "Anger's my meat": feeding, dependency, and aggression in Coriolanus / Janet Adelman -- The avoidance of love: a reading of King Lear / Stanley Cavell -- To entrap the wisest: Sacrificial ambivalence in The merchant of Venice and Richard III / René Girard -- What did the king know and when did he know it?: Shakespearean discourses and psychoanalysis / Harry Berger, Jr. -- The turn of the shrew / Joel Fineman -- The cosmic background / E.M.W. Tillyard -- Invisible bullets / Stephen Greenblatt -- The new historicism in renaissance studies / Jean E. Howard -- "Shaping fantasies": figurations of gender and power in Elizabethan culture / Louis Adrian Montrose -- Shakespeare's theater: tradition and experiment / Robert Weimann -- King Lear (ca. 1605-1606) and essentialist humanism / Jonathan Dollimore -- Give an account of Shakespeare and education, showing why you think they are effective and what you have appreciated about them. Support your comments with precise references / Alan Sinfield -- Egyptian queens and male reviewers: sexist attitudes in Anthony and Cleopatra criticism / L.T. Fitz [Linda Woodbridge] -- "I wooed thee with my sword": Shakespeare's tragic paradigms / Madelon Gohlke Sprengnether -- The family in Shakespeare studies, or Studies in the family of Shakespearans; or The politics of politics / Lynda E. Boose -- Disrupting sexual difference: meaning and gender in the comedies / Catherine Belsey -- "This that you call love": sexual and social tragedy in Othello / Gayle Greene -- The performance of desire / Stephen Orgel -- The secret sharer / Bruce R. Smith -- The homoerotics of Shakespearean comedy / Valerie Traub -- Shakespeare and the Blackfriars theater / Gerald Eades Bentley -- The critical revolution / J.L. Styan -- William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: everything's nice in America? / Barbara Hodgdon Deeper meanings and theatrical technique: the rhetoric of performance criticism / William B. Worthen -- Nymphs and reapers heavily vanish: the discursive con-texts of The tempest / Francis Barker and Peter Hulme -- Sexuality and racial difference / Ania Loomba -- Discourse and the individual: the case of colonialism in The tempest / Meredith Anne Skura -- Shakespeare's prose / Jonas A. Barish -- The play of phrase and line / George T. Wright -- Transfigurations: Shakespeare and rhetoric / Patricia Parker |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 20th century.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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English drama -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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| Added Author |
McDonald, Russ, 1949-
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| ISBN |
063123487X alkaline paper |
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9780631234876 alkaline paper |
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0631234888 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780631234883 paperback alkaline paper |
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