1st Edition

Shakespeare Left and Right

Edited By Ivo Kamps Copyright 1991
348 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge

Shakespeare Left and Right brings together critics, strikingly different in their politics and methodologies, who are acutely aware of the importance of politics on literary practice and theory. Should, for example, feminist criticism be subjected to a critique by voices it construes as hostile to its political agenda? Is it possible to present a critique of feminist criticism without... Read more

Acknowledgements;  1. Introduction: Ideology and Its Discontents;  Part 1: Critique and/or Ideology;  2. Ideological Criticism and Pluralism  3. The Myth of Neutrality, Again?  4. Where Does Ideology Hang Out?  5. MLA Response to Levin, Greene, and Bristol  6. Reply to Michael Bristol and Gayle Greene  7. Straw Women and Whipping Girls: The (Sexual) Politics of Critical Self-Fashioning  8. Against "Ideology"  9. Ordinary People and Academic Critics: A Response to Richard Levin  10. Commentary: "You’ve Got a Lot of Nerve";  Part 2: Ideology and Critical Practice;  11. Character and Ideology in Shakespeare  12. Violence and Gender Ideology in Coriolanus and Macbeth 13: "A Woman’s War": A Feminist Reading of Richard II  14. Julius Caesar, Allan Bloom, and the Value of Pedagogical Pluralism  15. Transfer of Title in Love’s Labor’s Lost: Language, Individualism, Gender  16. On the Continuity of the Henriad: A Critique of Some Literary and Theatrical Approaches;  17. "The King Hath Many Marching in His Coats" or, What Did You Do During the War, Daddy?  18. A Tale of Two Branaghs: Henry V, Ideology, and the Mekong Agincourt  19. Commentary: "In the Destructive Element Immersed"  20. Afterword: Poetics from the Barrel of a Gun?;  Bibliography;  Index;  Contributors

Biography

Ivo Kamps