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Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres

Leonard Tennenhouse

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First published in 1986. 'Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive form may function as a screen for another above all to the political entailment of genre.' Stephen Greenblatt.

What is the relation between literary and political power? How do the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice relate to one another? Power on Display considers Shakespeare's progression from romantic comedies and history plays to tragedy and romance in the light of the general process of cultural change in the period.

Language: English

Pages: 206

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Methuen Publishing

Release: December 01, 1986

ISBN: 0416012817

ISBN 13: 9780416012811

Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres

Leonard Tennenhouse

3.2/5 ( ratings)

First published in 1986. 'Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive form may function as a screen for another above all to the political entailment of genre.' Stephen Greenblatt.

What is the relation between literary and political power? How do the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice relate to one another? Power on Display considers Shakespeare's progression from romantic comedies and history plays to tragedy and romance in the light of the general process of cultural change in the period.

Language: English

Pages: 206

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Methuen Publishing

Release: December 01, 1986

ISBN: 0416012817

ISBN 13: 9780416012811

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