TY - BOOK AU - Drakakis,John(Editor) TI - Shakespearean tragedy T2 - Longman critical readers SN - 0582051142 U1 - 822.33 PY - 1992/// CY - London ; New York PB - Longman KW - Tragedy KW - Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - English drama -- Tragedies N1 - Semiotics. The great eclipse : tragic form as the deconsecration of sovereignty / Franco Moretti -- The breakdown of medieval hierarchy in King Lear / Alessandro Serpieri -- Marxism and materialism. Aristocratic failure / Walter Cohen -- Shakespeare's theater : tradition and experiment / Robert Weimann -- New historicism. The improvisation of power / Stephen Greenblatt -- Cultural materialism. King Lear (c. 1605-6) and essentialist humanism / Jonathan Dollimore -- Feminism. Finding a place / Catherine Belsey -- The late tragedies / Marilyn French -- Representing Ophelia : women, madness and the responsibilities of feminist criticism / Elaine Showalter -- Psychoanalytical criticism. Romeo and Juliet : love-hatred in the couple / Julia Kristeva -- Othello : a tragedy of conversion : black magic and white magic / André Green. "Anger's my meat" : feeding, dependency and aggression in Coriolanus / Janet Adelman -- Post-structuralism and materialism. Albion's confusion / Malcolm Evans -- Value : King Lear, Timon of Athens, Antony and Cleopatra / Terry Eagleton -- A sea shell / Terence Hawkes N2 - The outlines of contemporary critical theory are now often taught as a standard feature of a degree in literary studies. This text aims to explore the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in the essays selected and locates areas of disagreement between positions ER -