1st Edition

Shakespeare and the Question of Theory

Edited By Geoffrey H. Hartman, Patricia Parker Copyright 1985
350 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

The theoretical ferment which has affected literary studies over the last decade has called into question traditional ways of thinking about, classifying and interpreting texts. Shakespeare has been not just the focus of a variety of divergent critical movements within recent years, but also increasingly the locus of emerging debates within, and with, theory itself. This collection of essays,... Read more
Introduction, I Language, rhetoric, deconstruction, II The woman's part, III Politics, economy, history, IV The question of Hamlet, Notes on contributors

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Geoffrey H. Hartman, Patricia Parker

`... students will find it a valuable text for introducing some of the liveliest debates in modern Shakespearean criticism.' - Christopher Norris, British Book News