| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 207 pages) |
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Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-202) and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
Teasing out the meaning of the narrative poems, as well as some of the more familiar plays, 'Shakespeare in Theory and Practice' demonstrates the possibilities of an attention to textuality that also draws on the archive. |
| Contents |
Introduction: practising with theory -- Psychoanalysis and early modern culture: Lacan with Augustine and Montaigne -- Love as trompe-l'oeil: taxonomies of desire in Venus and Adonis -- Tarquin dispossessed: expropriation and consent in The rape of Lucrece -- Antinomies of desire and the sonnets -- Peter Quince's ballad: memory, psychoanalysis, history and A midsummer night's dream -- The illusion of empire: Elizabethan expansionism and Shakespeare's second tetralogy -- Making histories then and now: Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V -- The case of Hamlet's conscience -- Iago the essayist. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. (OCoLC)fst00029048
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Shakespeare, William.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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English literature -- Early modern.
(OCoLC)fst01710960
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| Chronological Term |
1500-1700
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Belsey, Catherine. Shakespeare in theory and practice. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008 9780748633012 0748633014 (OCoLC)192027534 |
| ISBN |
9780748632152 (electronic bk.) |
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0748632158 (electronic bk.) |
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