{"product_id":"shakespeare-9780631234883","title":"Shakespeare","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespeare: Criticism and Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is an anthology of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn anthology of about 50 of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduces students to the variety of theoretical positions, thematic claims, methodologies, and modes of argument in Shakespeare criticism over the last 50 years.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCritical views represented range from the old style historicism of E.M.W. Tillyard and the new criticism of William Empson to the new historicism of Stephen Greenblatt and the feminist perspective of Catherine Belsey.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePieces are organised into categories of critical thought and introduced in clear language.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMost pieces are reproduced in their entirety.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Authorship 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Looney and the Oxfordians 4\u003cbr\u003e S. Schoenbaum\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II New Criticism 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Naked Babe and the Cloak of Manliness 19\u003cbr\u003e Cleanth Brooks\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 ‘‘Honest’’ in Othello 35\u003cbr\u003e William Empson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 ‘‘Introductory’’ Chapter About the Tragedies 50\u003cbr\u003e Wolfgang Clemen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The ‘‘New Criticism’’ and King Lear 63\u003cbr\u003e William R. Keast\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Dramatic Kinds 89\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Argument of Comedy 93\u003cbr\u003e Northrop Frye\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Ambivalence: The Dialectic of the Histories 100\u003cbr\u003e A. P. Rossiter\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Saturnalian Pattern 116\u003cbr\u003e C. L. Barber\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Jacobean Shakespeare: Some Observations on the Construction of the Tragedies 125\u003cbr\u003e Maynard Mack\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV The 1950s and 1960s: Theme, Character, Structure 149\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Reflections on the Sentimentalist’s Othello 152\u003cbr\u003e Barbara Everett\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Form and Formality in Romeo and Juliet 164\u003cbr\u003e Harry Levin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 King Lear or Endgame 174\u003cbr\u003e Jan Kott\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Cheapening of the Stage 191\u003cbr\u003e Anne Righter [Barton]\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 How Not to Murder Caesar 209\u003cbr\u003e Sigurd Burckhardt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Reader-Response Criticism 221\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 On the Value of Hamlet 225\u003cbr\u003e Stephen Booth\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Rabbits, Ducks, and Henry V 245\u003cbr\u003e Norman Rabkin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Textual Criticism and Bibliography 265\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The New Textual Criticism of Shakespeare 269\u003cbr\u003e Fredson Bowers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Revising Shakespeare 280\u003cbr\u003e Gary Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Narratives About Printed Shakespeare Texts: ‘‘Foul Papers’’ and ‘‘Bad Quartos’’ 296\u003cbr\u003e Paul Werstine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII Psychoanalytic Criticism 319\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 ‘‘Anger’s my meat’’: Feeding, Dependency, and Aggression in Coriolanus 323\u003cbr\u003e Janet Adelman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear 338\u003cbr\u003e Stanley Cavell\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 To Entrap the Wisest: Sacrificial Ambivalence in The Merchant of Venice and Richard III 353\u003cbr\u003e René Girard\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 What Did the King Know and When Did He Know It? Shakespearean Discourses and Psychoanalysis 365\u003cbr\u003e Harry Berger, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Turn of the Shrew 399\u003cbr\u003e Joel Fineman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII Historicism and New Historicism 417\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 The Cosmic Background 422\u003cbr\u003e E. M. W. Tillyard\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and its Subversion, Henry IV and Henry V 435\u003cbr\u003e Stephen Greenblatt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies 458\u003cbr\u003e Jean E. Howard\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 ‘‘Shaping Fantasies’’: Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture 481\u003cbr\u003e Louis Adrian Montrose\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IX Materialist Criticism 511\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Shakespeare’s Theater: Tradition and Experiment 515\u003cbr\u003e Robert Weimann\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 King Lear (ca. 1605–1606) and Essentialist Humanism 535\u003cbr\u003e Jonathan Dollimore\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 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 547\u003cbr\u003e Alan Sinfield\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart X Feminist Criticism 565\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in Antony and Cleopatra Criticism 570\u003cbr\u003e L. T. Fitz [Linda Woodbridge]\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 ‘‘I wooed thee with my sword’’: Shakespeare’s Tragic Paradigms 591\u003cbr\u003e Madelon Gohlke Sprengnether\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 The Family in Shakespeare Studies; or Studies in the Family of Shakespeareans; or The Politics of Politics 606\u003cbr\u003e Lynda E. Boose\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Disrupting Sexual Difference: Meaning and Gender in the Comedies 633\u003cbr\u003e Catherine Belsey\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XI Studies in Gender and Sexuality 651\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 ‘‘This that you call love’’: Sexual and Social Tragedy in Othello 655\u003cbr\u003e Gayle Greene\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 The Performance of Desire 669\u003cbr\u003e Stephen Orgel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 The Secret Sharer 684\u003cbr\u003e Bruce R. Smith\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 The Homoerotics of Shakespearean Comedy 704\u003cbr\u003e Valerie Traub\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XII Performance Criticism 727\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Shakespeare and the Blackfriars Theatre 732\u003cbr\u003e Gerald Eades Bentley\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 The Critical Revolution 745\u003cbr\u003e J. L. Styan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 William Shakespeare’s Romeo þ Juliet : Everything’s Nice in America? 750\u003cbr\u003e Barbara Hodgdon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 Deeper Meanings and Theatrical Technique: The Rhetoric of Performance Criticism 762\u003cbr\u003e William B. Worthen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XIII Postcolonial Shakespeare 777\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish: The Discursive Con-texts of The Tempest 781\u003cbr\u003e Francis Barker and Peter Hulme\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 Sexuality and Racial Difference 794\u003cbr\u003e Ania Loomba\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in The Tempest 817\u003cbr\u003e Meredith Anne Skura\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XIV Reading Closely 845\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 Shakespeare’s Prose 848\u003cbr\u003e Jonas A. Barish\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48 The Play of Phrase and Line 861\u003cbr\u003e George T. Wright\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49 Transfigurations: Shakespeare and Rhetoric 880\u003cbr\u003e Patricia Parker\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 908\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403459043671,"sku":"9780631234883","price":39.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631234883.jpg?v=1730483533","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeare-9780631234883","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}