Shakespeare's Tragedies : Contemporary Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780333632192 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 295 str.

Opis

Shakespeare's tragedies - the plays which represent human experience in its starkest and most terrifying dimensions - are crucial to the postmodern study of early modern subjectivity. In this collection of ground-breaking essays, eminent Shakespearean scholars examine ten of these tragedies through a variety of postmodern frameworks: historical, linguistic and psychoanalytical. Although each essay presents an original perspective on one of Shakespeare's tragedies, the collection taken as a whole reveals the interdependence of these new critical approaches. The editor's introduction discusses key issues that link the essays, as well as aspects of postmodern theory that have particular relevance to Shakespeare's tragedies.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; S. Zimmerman.- Escaping the Matrix: The Construction of Masculinity in Coriolanus; J.Adelman.- The Name of the Rose in Romeo and Juliet; C.Belsey.- Spheres of Influence: Cartography and the Gaze in Shakespeare's Roman Plays; P.Armstrong.- 'Suche Strange Desygns': Madness, Subjectivity and Treason in Hamlet and Elizabethan Culture; K.S.Coddon.- Shakespeare Bewitched; S.Greenblatt.- 'Fashion It Thus': Julius Ceasar and the Politics of Theatrical Representation; J.Drakakis.- Perspectives: Dover Cliff and the Condition of Representation; J.Goldberg.- Fantasies of 'Race' and 'Gender': Africa, Othello and Bringing to Light; P. Parker.- Transvestism and the 'Body Beneath': Speculating on the Boy Actor; P.Stallybrass.- 'The Swallowing Womb': Consumed and Consuming Women in Titus Andronicus; M.Wynne-Davies.- 'Funeral Bak'd Meats': Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet; M.D.Bristol.- The Ideology of Superfluous Things: King Lear as Period Piece; M.de Grazia.- Further Reading.- Notes on the Contributors.- Index.

O autorze

SUSAN ZIMMERMAN is Associate Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, and Book Review Editor of Shakespeare Studies.