| Description |
xxxviii, 487 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [427]-474) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Marriage and mercifixion in The Merchant of Venice:: The casket scene revisited -- Against the sink-a-pace: Sexual and family politics in Much Ado About Nothing -- King Lear: The Lear family romance -- Text against performance: The Gloucester family romance -- The early scenes of Macbeth: Preface to a new interpretation -- Text against performance: The example of Macbeth -- Sneak's noise, or, rumor and detextualization in 2 Henry IV --Psychoanalyzing the Shakespeare text: The first three scenes of the Henriad -- Textual dramaturgy: Representing the limits of theater in Richard III -- Ars Moriendi in progress, or, John of Gaunt and the practice of strategic dying -- What did the king know and when did he know it? Shakespearean discourses and psychoanalysis -- Food for words: Hotspur and the discourse of honor -- Making trifles of terrors: Redistributing complicities in the ethical discourses -- What does the duke know and when does he know it?: Carrying the torch in Measure for Measure. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Political plays, English -- History and criticism.
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Didactic drama, English -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Erickson, Peter.
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| ISBN |
0804727325 cloth alkaline paper |
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0804728526 paperback alkaline paper |
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