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Shakespeare An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1945-2000

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ISBN-10: 063123487X

ISBN-13: 9780631234876

Edition: 2003

Authors: Russ McDonald

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An anthology of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the 20th century. It introduces students to the variety of theoretical positions, thematic claims, methodologies and modes of argument that have contributed to the critical landscape.
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Book details

List price: $197.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/30/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 952
Size: 7.44" wide x 10.22" long x 2.13" tall
Weight: 3.806
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Authorship
Looney and the Oxfordians
New Criticism
The Naked Babe and the Cloak of Manliness
"Honest" in Othello
"Introductory" Chapter About the Tragedies
The "New Criticism" and King Lear
Dramatic Kinds
The Argument of Comedy
Ambivalence: The Dialectic of the Histories
The Saturnalian Pattern
The Jacobean Shakespeare: Some Observations on the Construction of the Tragedies
The 1950s and 1960s: Theme, Character, Structure
Reflections on the Sentimentalist's Othello
Form and Formality in Romeo and Juliet
King Lear or Endgame
The Cheapening of the Stage
How Not to Murder Caesar
Reader-Response Criticism
On the Value of Hamlet
Rabbits, Ducks, and Henry V
Textual Criticism and Bibliography
The New Textual Criticism of Shakespeare
Revising Shakespeare
Narrative About Printed Shakespeare Texts: "Foul Papers" and "Bad Quartos"
Psychoanalytic Criticism
"Anger's my meat": Feeding, Dependency, and Aggression in Coriolanus
The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear
To Entrap the Wisest: Sacrificial Ambivalence in The Merchant of Venice and Richard III
What Did the King Know and When Did He Know It? Shakespearean Discourses and Psychoanalysis
The Turn of the Shrew
Historicism and New Historicism
The Cosmic Background
Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and its Subversion, Henry IV and Henry V
The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies
"Shaping Fantasies": Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture
Materialist Criticism
Shakespeare's Theater: Tradition and Experiment
King Lear (ca. 1605-1606) and Essentialist Humanism
Give an Account of Shakespeare and Education, Showing Why You Think They Are Effective and What You Have Appreciated About Them. Support Your Comments with Precise References
Feminist Criticism
Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in Antony and Cleopatra Criticism
"I wooed thee with my sword": Shakespeare's Tragic Paradigms
The Family in Shakespeare Studies; or Studies in the Family of Shakespeareans; or The Politics of Politics
Disrupting Sexual Difference: Meaning and Gender in the Comedies
Studies in Gender and Sexuality
"This that you call love": Sexual and Social Tragedy in Othello
The Performance of Desire
The Secret Sharer
The Homoerotics of Shakespearean Comedy
Performance Criticism
Shakespeare and the Blackfriars Theatre
The Critical Revolution
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Everything's Nice in America?
Deeper Meanings and Theatrical Technique: The Rhetoric of Performance Criticism
Postcolonial Shakespeare
Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish: The Discursive Con-texts of The Tempest
Sexuality and Racial Difference
Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in The Tempest
Reading Closely
Shakespeare's Prose