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

    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, written by distinguished and powerful critics in the fields of literary theory and Shakespeare studies, is intended both for those interested in Shakespeare and for those interested more generally in the emerging debates within contemporary criticism and theory.

    Introduction, I Language, rhetoric, deconstruction, II The woman's part, III Politics, economy, history, IV The question of Hamlet, Notes on contributors

    Biography

    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