Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings

ISBN-13: 9780415897037 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 202 str.

James O'Rourke

Opis

Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close readings, that a presentist Shakespeare is not an anachronism.

Recenzje

"His chapters combine local readings and nuanced theoretical insights with attentive close readings to suggest the myriad ways in which Shakespeare’s theater not only resists but also revises dominant political and cultural structures. O’Rourke sees a Shakespeare who is not merely immersed in his culture, but actively reshaping it. Both O’Rourke’s critiques of New Historicism and his readings of various plays present a powerful perspective on Shakespeare’s work, which allows for a Shakespeare who is still in many respects our contemporary." – Renaissance Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction: Retheorizing Shakespeare  1. Spectres of Intention: Epic Theatre and the Lessons of Theory  2. Boys Will Be Boys: Subtexts and Afterthoughts in the Comedies  3. Racism and Homophobia in The Merchant of Venice  4. Love and Object-Cathexis in Troilus and Cressida: Just One of Those Things  5. The Exotic/Erotic and the Group: Othello  6. King Lear and the Art of Dying  Notes  Performance Bibliography  Index

O autorze

James O’Rourke is a Professor in the Department of English, Florida State University, US. His previous books include Sex,Lies and Autobiography: The Ethics of Confession and Keats’s Odes and Contemporary Criticism.