Political shakespeare : Essays in Cultural Materialism

By: Dollimore, Jonatan [Editor]Contributor(s): Sinfield, Alan (Editor)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1994Description: viii, 295 pagesISBN: 9780719043529; 0719043522 Subject(s): Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Political and social viewsDDC classification: 822.33
Contents:
Introduction: Shakespeare, cultural materialiams and the new historicism / Jonathan Dollimore -- Invisible bullets: Renaissance authority and its subversion, Henry IV and Henry V / Stephen Greenblatt -- 'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': The tempest and the discourse of colonialism / Paul Brown -- Transgression and surveillance in Measure for measure / Jonathan Dollimore -- The patriarchal bard: feminist criticism and Shakespeare: King Lear and Measure for measure / Kathleen McLuskie -- Strategies of state and political plays: A midsummer night's dream, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VIII / Leonard Tennenhouse -- Shakespeare understudies: the sodomite, the prostitute, the transvestite and their critics / Jonathan Dollimore -- Introduction: Reproductions, interventions / Alan Sinfield -- 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 -- Royal Shakespeare: theatre and the making of ideology / Alan Sinfield -- Radical potentiality and institutional closure: Shakespeare in film and television / Graham Holderness -- how Brecht read Shakespeare / Margot Heinemann -- Heritage and the market, regulation and desublimation / Alan Sinfield -- Afterword / Raymond Williams.
Summary: This work sets out to depose the sacred icon of the "eternal bard" and argue for a Shakespeare who meditates and exploits political, cultural and ideological forces. Ten years on, this second edition presents additional essays by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield.
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Index

Introduction: Shakespeare, cultural materialiams and the new historicism / Jonathan Dollimore --
Invisible bullets: Renaissance authority and its subversion, Henry IV and Henry V / Stephen Greenblatt --
'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': The tempest and the discourse of colonialism / Paul Brown --
Transgression and surveillance in Measure for measure / Jonathan Dollimore --
The patriarchal bard: feminist criticism and Shakespeare: King Lear and Measure for measure / Kathleen McLuskie --
Strategies of state and political plays: A midsummer night's dream, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VIII / Leonard Tennenhouse --
Shakespeare understudies: the sodomite, the prostitute, the transvestite and their critics / Jonathan Dollimore --
Introduction: Reproductions, interventions / Alan Sinfield --
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 --
Royal Shakespeare: theatre and the making of ideology / Alan Sinfield --
Radical potentiality and institutional closure: Shakespeare in film and television / Graham Holderness --
how Brecht read Shakespeare / Margot Heinemann --
Heritage and the market, regulation and desublimation / Alan Sinfield --
Afterword / Raymond Williams.

This work sets out to depose the sacred icon of the "eternal bard" and argue for a Shakespeare who meditates and exploits political, cultural and ideological forces. Ten years on, this second edition presents additional essays by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield.

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