Misrepresentations : : Shakespeare and the Materialists / / Graham Bradshaw.

Just at the moment when conflicts between critical "isms" are threatening to turn the study of English literature into a game park for endangered texts, Bradshaw arrives with a work of liberating wit and insight. His subject is double: the Shakespeare he reads and the Shakespeare whom crit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1993
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
A Note on the Text --
PROLOGUE. Is Shakespeare Evil --
CHAPTER ONE. Being Oneself: New Historicists, Cultural Materialists, and Henry V --
CHAPTER TWO. Dramatic Intentions: Two-Timing in Shakespeare's Venice --
EPILOGUE. The New Historicist as Iago --
APPENDIX. Dashing Othello's Spirits --
Notes --
Index
Summary:Just at the moment when conflicts between critical "isms" are threatening to turn the study of English literature into a game park for endangered texts, Bradshaw arrives with a work of liberating wit and insight. His subject is double: the Shakespeare he reads and the Shakespeare whom critics in the ranks of the new historicists and cultural materialists are representing (or misrepresenting).
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781501722301
9783110536171
DOI:10.7591/9781501722301
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Graham Bradshaw.