288 Pages
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Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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When critical theory met literary studies in the 1970s and '80s, some of the most radical and exciting theoretical work centred on the quasi-sacred figure of Shakespeare. In Alternative Shakespeares , John Drakakis brought together key essays by founding figures in this movement to remake Shakespeare studies.
A new afterword by Robert Weimann outlines the extraordinary impact of Alternative... Read more
1 Introduction 2 Swisser-Swatter: making a man of English letter 3 Post-structuralist Shakespeare: text and ideology 4 Deconstructing Shakespeare’s comedies 5 Sexuality in the reading of Shakespeare: Hamlet and Measure for Measure 6 Reading the signs: towards a semiotics of Shakespearean drama translated by Keir Elam 7 Shakespeare in ideology 8 Disrupting sexual difference: meaning and gender in the comedies 9 Nymphs and reapers heavily vanish: the discursive contexts of The Tempest 10 History and ideology: the instance of Henry V
Biography
The Editor, John Drakakis, is Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling.
