Shakespeare minus "theory"

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"The volume includes six interpretative studies, all but one of which involve challenges to radical readings of the plays involved, including Henry V, Coriolanus, The Tempest, and Doctor Faustus. The other three essays are critiques of the claims and methods of radical, postmodernist criticism (new historicism and cultural materialism especially); they illustrate the author's conviction that some leading scholars in the field of Renaissance literature and drama, who deserve credit for shifting …

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Full title :Shakespeare minus "theory" / Tom McAlindon.

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Publication Date:©2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Aldershot, Hants, England
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2004.

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Description:xii, 198 pages ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:0754639819, 9780754639817
oclc:ocm53083872
LC Classification:PR2976
Dewey Decimal:822.3/3

Taking stock : radical criticism of Shakespeare -- Testing new historicism : 'invisible bullets' reconsidered -- War and peace in Henry V -- Perfect answers : religious inquisition, falstaffian wit -- Cultural materialism and the ethics of reading: or, radicalising of Jacobean tragedy -- Shakespearean tragedy -- Coriolanus : an essentialist tragedy -- The discourse of prayer in The tempest -- Marlowe plus and minus 'theory' : the case of Doctor Faustus.

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