Shakespeare in Theory and Practice / / Catherine Belsey.

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748633012');In these essays, collected here for the first time, renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction, together with his moment in history. Teasing out the meanings of the narr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2008
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 Introduction: Practising with Theory
  • Chapter 2 Psychoanalysis and Early Modern Culture: Lacan with Augustine and Montaigne
  • Chapter 3 Love as Trompe-l’oeil : Taxonomies of Desire in Venus and Adonis
  • Chapter 4 Tarquin Dispossessed: Expropriation and Consent in The Rape of Lucrece
  • Chapter 5 Antinomies of Desire and the Sonnets
  • Chapter 6 Peter Quince’s Ballad: Memory, Psychoanalysis, History and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Chapter 7 The Illusion of Empire: Elizabethan Expansionism and Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy
  • Chapter 8 Making Histories Then and Now: Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V
  • Chapter 9 The Case of Hamlet’s Conscience
  • Chapter 10 Iago the Essayist
  • Notes
  • Index