Marxist Shakespeares (Accents on Shakespeare.).Howard, Jean, and Scott Cutler Shershow, eds. Marxist Shakespeares (Accents on Shakespeare.) New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and London: Routledge, 2001. xii + 304 pp. bibl, index. n.p. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-415-20234-5. This is the first in a new series edited by Terence Hawkes which aims to provide both single- and multi-authored texts that "will either 'apply' theory, or broaden and adapt it in order to connect with concrete teaching concerns" and with the major developments in recent Shakespeare studies. The eleven essays, as well as an introductory chapter by the editors, examine the historical and economic conditions by which Shakespeare's plays William Shakespeare's plays have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. His plays are traditionally divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy. and poems came to exist, and the role of performance in the culture industry from the Globe to contemporary productions. Engaging such thinkers as Marx, Derrida, Bourdieu, and Bataille, the collection aims "to use Marx and Marxist-inflected theory to forge fresh narratives about Shakespeare and about the histories and institutions in which his texts have been implicated im·pli·cate tr.v. im·pli·cat·ed, im·pli·cat·ing, im·pli·cates 1. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot. 2. ." A bibliography and full index are included. Essays include: Howard, Jean E., & Scott Cutler Shershow, "Introduction: Marxism Now, Shakespeare Now"; Stallybrass, Peter, "'Well grubbed, old mole': Marx, Hamlet, and the (Un)Fixing of Representation"; Halpern, Richard, "An Impure im·pure adj. im·pur·er, im·pur·est 1. Not pure or clean; contaminated. 2. Not purified by religious rite; unclean. 3. Immoral or sinful: impure thoughts. History of Ghosts: Derrida, Marx, Shakespeare"; Callaghan, Dympna, "Looking Well in Linens: Women and Cultural Production in Othello and Shakespeare's England"; Korda, Natasha, "'Judicious oeillades': Supervising Marital Property in The Merry Wives of Windsor"; Bowen, Barbara E., "The Rape of Jesus: Aemilia Lanyer's Lucrece"; Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , Walter, "The Undiscovered Country: Shakespeare and Mercantile Geography"; Wilson, Richard Wilson, Richard, 1713?–1782, British landscape painter, b. Wales. He studied in London and achieved success as a portrait painter, but after a visit to Italy (c.1750–1756) he devoted himself to landscape in the classical tradition of Claude Lorrain. , "The Management of Mirth: Shakespeare via Bourdieu"; Bartolovich, Crystal, "Shakespeare's Globe"; Albanese, Denise, "The Shakespeare Film and the Americanization of Culture"; Ryan, Kiernan, "Measure for Measure Marxism before Marx"; Shershow, Scott Cutler, "Shakespeare beyond Shakespeare." |
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