446 Pages
by
Routledge
448 Pages
by
Routledge
446 Pages
by
Routledge
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Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifteen major contemporary essays on individual plays and the genre as a whole. Each piece has been carefully chosen as a key intervention in its own right and as a representative of an influential critical approach to the genre. The collection as a whole, therefore, provides both a guide and explanation to the various ways in which contemporary criticism... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Semiotics; Chapter 3 Marxism and Materialism; Chapter 4 New Historicism; Chapter 5 Cultural Materialism; Chapter 6 Feminism; Chapter 7 Psychoanalytical Criticism; Chapter 8 Post-Structuralism and Materialism;
Biography
John Drakakis
"The cumulative effect of these essays is to destabalise the apparent firmness and cohesion of the concept of 'tragedy' itself, to liberate the texts of Shakespearian drama from such universalising categories, and to return the texts to history, to criticism and to theory."
- Times Educational Supplement
