Shakespeare's History Plays: Rethinking Historicism
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1. Verfasser: Parvini, Neema (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2012
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Beschreibung:Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note on Texts; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 New Historicism; Chapter 3 Cultural Materialism; Chapter 4 An Argument Against Anti-humanism; Chapter 5 Solutions; Chapter 6 Shakespeare's Historical and Political Thought in Context; Chapter 7 Personal Action and Agency in Henry VI; Chapter 8 Ideology in Richard II and Henry IV; Chapter 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-235) and index
Beschreibung:249 pages
ISBN:9780748646142
0748646140
9780748646135
0748646132

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