Shakespeare and Modernity: Early Modern to Millennium

ISBN-13: 9780415212007 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 256 str.

Hugh Grady

Opis

Shakespeare has variously been seen as the last great exponent of pre-modern Western culture, a crucial inaugurator of modernity and a prophet of postmodernity. This collection of essays traces the changing reception of Shakespeare over the past 400 years. Along the way it provides insights into: the nature of individuality, identity, and the self; the inter-relations of the rise of capitalism, nation-states, and secular culture; the sexual division of labour and gender identity; and the beginnings of Western colonialism, racism, and anti-Semitism. This examination of Shakespeare's plays offers a significant contribution to the revival of the idea of modernity and how we periodise ourselves, and Shakespeare, at the beginning of a new millennium.

Spis treści

Contributors Preface Introduction 1. (Post) modern Elizabeth: Gender, Politics, and the Emergence of Modern Subjectivity 2. Ante-Aesthetics: Towards a Theory of Early Modern Audience Response 3. Shakespeare, Modernity and the Aesthetic: Art, Truth and Judgement in The Winters Tale 4. Measure for Measure and Modernity: The Problem of the Sceptic's Authority 5. 'Jew. Shylock is my name': Speech-prefixes in The Merchant of Venice as symptoms of the early modern 6. The Merchant of Venice: 'Modern' Anti-Semitism and the Veil of Allegory 7. Jewish Invader and the Soul of State: The Merchant of Venice and Science Fiction Movies 8. Shakespeare and the End of History: Period as Brand Name 9. The Hamlet Formerly Known as Prince Works Cited Index

O autorze

Hugh Grady is Professor of English at Beaver College, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of The Modernist Shakespeare (1991) and Shakespeare's Universal Wolf (1996).