Shakespeare : an anthology of criticism and theory, 1945-2000 / edited by Russ McDonald.
| Other author | McDonald, Russ, 1949- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004. |
| Description | xix, 930 pages ; 26 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Looney and the Oxfordians / S. Schoenbaum -- The naked babe and the cloak of manliness / Cleanth Brooks -- "Honest" in Othello / William Empson -- "Introductory" chapter about the tragedies / Wolfgang Clemen -- The "new criticism" and King Lear / William R. Keast -- The argument of comedy / Northrop Frye -- Ambivalence : the dialectic of the histories / A.P. Rossiter -- The Saturnalian pattern / C.L. Barber -- The Jacobean Shakespeare : some observations on the construction of the tragedies / Maynard Mack -- Reflections on the sentimentalist's Othello / Barbara Everett -- Form and formality in Romeo and Juliet / Harry Levin -- King Lear or Endgame / Jan Kott -- The cheapening of the stage / Anne Righter [Barton] -- How not to murder Caesar / Sigurd Burckhardt -- On the value of Hamlet / Stephen Booth -- Rabbits, ducks, and Henry V / Norman Rabkin -- The new textual criticism of Shakespeare / Fredson Bowers -- Revising Shakespeare / Gary Taylor -- Narrative about printed Shakespeare texts : "Foul papers" and "Bad quartos" / Paul Werstine -- "Anger's my meat" : feeding, dependency, and aggression in Coriolanus / Janet Adelman -- The avoidance of love : a reading of King Lear / Stanley Cavell -- To entrap the wisest : Sacrificial ambivalence in The merchant of Venice and Richard III / René Girard -- What did the king know and when did he know it? : Shakespearean discourses and psychoanalysis / Harry Berger, Jr. -- The turn of the shrew / Joel Fineman -- The cosmic background / E.M.W. Tillyard -- Invisible bullets / Stephen Greenblatt -- The new historicism in renaissance studies / Jean E. Howard -- "Shaping fantasies" : figurations of gender and power in Elizabethan culture / Louis Adrian Montrose -- Shakespeare's theater : tradition and experiment / Robert Weimann -- King Lear (ca. 1605-1606) and essentialist humanism / Jonathan Dollimore -- Give an account of Shakespeare and education, showing why you think they are effective and what you have appreciated about them. Support your comments with precise references / Alan Sinfield -- Egyptian queens and male reviewers : sexist attitudes in Anthony and Cleopatra criticism / L.T. Fitz [Linda Woodbridge] -- "I wooed thee with my sword" : Shakespeare's tragic paradigms / Madelon Gohlke Sprengnether -- The family in Shakespeare studies, or Studies in the family of Shakespearans; or The politics of politics / Lynda E. Boose -- Disrupting sexual difference : meaning and gender in the comedies / Catherine Belsey -- "This that you call love" : sexual and social tragedy in Othello / Gayle Greene -- The performance of desire / Stephen Orgel -- The secret sharer / Bruce R. Smith -- The homoerotics of Shakespearean comedy / Valerie Traub -- Shakespeare and the Blackfriars theater / Gerald Eades Bentley -- The critical revolution / J.L. Styan -- William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet : everything's nice in America? / Barbara Hodgdon -- Deeper meanings and theatrical technique : the rhetoric of performance criticism / William B. Worthen -- Nymphs and reapers heavily vanish : the discursive con-texts of The tempest / Francis Barker and Peter Hulme -- Sexuality and racial difference / Ania Loomba -- Discourse and the individual : the case of colonialism in The tempest / Meredith Anne Skura -- Shakespeare's prose / Jonas A. Barish -- The play of phrase and line / George T. Wright -- Transfigurations : Shakespeare and rhetoric / Patricia Parker. |
| Abstract | An anthology of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the 20th century. It introduces students to the variety of theoretical positions, thematic claims, methodologies and modes of argument that have contributed to the critical landscape. |
| Local note | Little-473049--305131068724/ |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Aufsatzsammlung. |
| Genre/form | Aufsatzsammlung. |
| LCCN | 2003012197 |
| ISBN | 063123487X (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780631234876 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0631234888 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780631234883 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard identifier# | 9780631234883 |
| Standard identifier# | 99807362398 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR2970 .S495 2004 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |