308 Pages
by
Routledge
308 Pages
by
Routledge
There are many 'Shakespeares', argue the contributors to this, the second volume of Alternative Shakespeares and the different versions emerge in a wide variety of cultural contexts: race, gender, sexuality and politics amongst others. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 consists of entirely new essays by some of the world's leading Shakespearean critics. The topics covered include: Sexuality... Read more
General editor’s preface 1 Introduction 2 After the new historicism 3 Cleopatra’s seduction 4 Imprints: Shakespeare, Gutenburg and Descartes 5 L[o]cating the sexual subject 6 How to read The Merchant of Venice without being heterosexist 7 ‘In what chapter of his bosom?’: reading Shakespeare’s bodies 8 Shakespeare and cultural difference 9 ‘Othello was a white man’: properties of race on Shakespeare’s stage 10 Watching Hamlet watching: Lacan, Shakespeare and the mirror / stage 11 Afterword: the next generation
Biography
Terence Hawkes, Professor of English, University of Wales, Cardiff.
