Marxist Shakespeares

ISBN-13: 9780415202336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 320 str.

Jean E. Howard; Scott C. Shershow

Opis

Uses analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to engage in a fresh way with Shakespeare's works. The essays collected here bring together work by both established and younger scholars to reveal the continuing power of Marxist thought to address: the relationship of texts to social class; the historical construction of the aesthetic; and the utopian dimensions of literary production. This book offers insights into the historical conditions within which Shakespeare's representations of class and gender emerged, and into Shakespeare's role in the global culture industry stretching from Hollywood to the Globe Theatre. It should be of interest not only to those studying Shakespeare, but any student who wishes to explore the political purpose and effect of intellectual work.

Spis treści

1. Introduction : Marxism Now, Shakespeare Now 2. Well Grubbed, Old Mole : Marx, Hamlet and the (Un)Fixing of Representation 3. An Impure History of Ghosts : Derrida, Marx, Shakespeare 4. Looking Well to Linens : Women and Cultural Production in Othello and Shakespeare's England 5. Judicious Oeillades : Surveying Marital Property in The Merry Wives of Windsor 6.The Rape of Jesus : Aemilia Lanyer's Lucrece 7. The Undiscovered Country : Shakespeare and Mercantile Geography 8. Shakespeare's Globe 9. The Shakespeare Film and the Americanization of Culture 10. The Management of Mirth : Shakespeare via Bourdieu 11. Measure for Measure : Marxism Before Marx 12. Shakespeare Beyond Shakespeare

O autorze

Jean E. Howard teaches Early Modern literature at Colombia University. Scott Cutler Shershow teaches English literature and literary theory at Miami University.