Why Shakespeare?

ISBN-13: 9781403993199 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 208 str.

Catherine Belsey

Opis

In this exciting new introduction to Shakespeare, Catherine Belsey takes traditional tales as a starting point to argue against the cultural materialists who claim Shakespeare's iconic status is no more than an accident of history. Each chapter shows how one of Shakespeare's best-known plays retells with a difference stories familiar both then and now. Belsey goes on to put forward new readings, teasing out the enigmas that constitute these texts and the interpretations they have inspired.

Spis treści

Preface.- Shakespeare's Singularity.- As You Like It and The Golden Goose.- King Lear and the Missing Salt.- The Exiled Princes in The Winter's Tale .- Fairy Tales for Grown-ups in A Midsummer Night's Dream.- Hamlet and the Reluctant Hero.- Twelfth Night and the Riddle of Gender.- Cultural Difference as Conundrum in The Merchant of Venice.- Happily Ever After?.- Further Reading.- Abbreviations and References.- Notes.- Index.

O autorze

CATHERINE BELSEY is Research Professor of English at the University of Wales, Swansea, UK. Her books include Critical Practice, The Subject of Tragedy and Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden.