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Shakespeare: The Roman Plays

Shakespeare: The Roman Plays

Janet Adelman
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This introductory text considers the Roman plays of Shakespeare in the light of both traditional and contemporary criticism. The essays reflect the range and impact of modern critical approaches, such as Marxism, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism, psychoanalytic theory and performance analysis, on the individual plays and on "Roman" drama.

Contents:
Introduction: Shakespeare dragged into politics : inner story of strange conflict --
"Is this a holiday?" : Shakespeare's Roman Carnival / Richard Wilson --
'Fashion it thus' : Julius Caesar and the politics of theatrical representation / John Drakakis --
Theaters of war : Caesar and the vandals / Alan Sinfield --
Antony and Cleopatra / Leonard Tennenhouse --
Making defect perfection / Janet Adelman --
Antony and Cleopatra : Virtus under erasure / Jonathan Dollimore --
'Speak, speak!' : the popular voice and the Jacobean state / Annabel Patterson --
Lenten butchery : legitimization crisis in Coriolanus / Michael D. Bristol --
Shakespeare and the general strike / Terence Hawkes --
Cymbeline : beyond Rome / Paul A. Cantor.
Language
English
Pages
191
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Longman
Release
May 24, 1996
ISBN
0582237696
ISBN 13
9780582237698

Shakespeare: The Roman Plays

Janet Adelman
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This introductory text considers the Roman plays of Shakespeare in the light of both traditional and contemporary criticism. The essays reflect the range and impact of modern critical approaches, such as Marxism, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism, psychoanalytic theory and performance analysis, on the individual plays and on "Roman" drama.

Contents:
Introduction: Shakespeare dragged into politics : inner story of strange conflict --
"Is this a holiday?" : Shakespeare's Roman Carnival / Richard Wilson --
'Fashion it thus' : Julius Caesar and the politics of theatrical representation / John Drakakis --
Theaters of war : Caesar and the vandals / Alan Sinfield --
Antony and Cleopatra / Leonard Tennenhouse --
Making defect perfection / Janet Adelman --
Antony and Cleopatra : Virtus under erasure / Jonathan Dollimore --
'Speak, speak!' : the popular voice and the Jacobean state / Annabel Patterson --
Lenten butchery : legitimization crisis in Coriolanus / Michael D. Bristol --
Shakespeare and the general strike / Terence Hawkes --
Cymbeline : beyond Rome / Paul A. Cantor.
Language
English
Pages
191
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Longman
Release
May 24, 1996
ISBN
0582237696
ISBN 13
9780582237698

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