Beginning ShakespeareBeginning Shakespeare introduces students to the study of Shakespeare, and grounds their understanding of his work in theoretical discourses. After an introductory survey of the dominant approaches of the past, seven chapters examine the major current critical approaches to Shakespeare: psychoanalysis; New Historicism; Cultural Materialism; gender studies; queer theory; postcolonial criticism and performance criticism. A further chapter looks at the growing roles of biography, attribution and textual studies. Each chapter analyses the strengths and weaknesses of its particular perspective, allowing students to gain a clear critical purchase on the respective approaches, and to make informed choices between them. Each chapter ends with a list of suggested further reading and interactive exercises based on the key issues raised. |
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... relation to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew which might well be read as a theatrical realization of such a community fantasy , the shaming and subjection of a shrewish wife . ( p . 87 ) Moreover , as the use of the word ' uncanny ...
... relation to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew which might well be read as a theatrical realization of such a community fantasy , the shaming and subjection of a shrewish wife . ( p . 87 ) Moreover , as the use of the word ' uncanny ...
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... relations - based approaches postulate that relationships between humans , from the mother and child relationship onwards , are central to individual human identity and experience ) . And feminist criticism in particu- lar has been the ...
... relations - based approaches postulate that relationships between humans , from the mother and child relationship onwards , are central to individual human identity and experience ) . And feminist criticism in particu- lar has been the ...
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Lisa Hopkins. called forth at the expense of her resistance to the patriarchal relations which it endorses . ( p . 102 ) ... relation- ships . However , feminists also recognise that our socialisation within the family and , perhaps more ...
Lisa Hopkins. called forth at the expense of her resistance to the patriarchal relations which it endorses . ( p . 102 ) ... relation- ships . However , feminists also recognise that our socialisation within the family and , perhaps more ...
Contents
Acknowledgements page | 1 |
Psychoanalysis | 36 |
New Historicism | 63 |
Copyright | |
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