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Book SynopsisIn Shakespeare Relocated, Hugh Macrae Richmond uses his previously published essays to illustrate the development of modern attitudes towards religion, politics, and sexuality. He traces the complex evolution from classical and medieval sources to Reformation and Renaissance ones by reviewing literary themes, styles, and attitudes. He stresses Shakespeare's unique place in the evolution of historical psychology as an author profoundly affected by the Reformation. This study of developing sensibility employs a method of critical analysis bridging the apparent gap between scholarly research and practical criticism and transcends the discontinuities and tensions in modern literary theory. He seeks to harmonize the critical alertness of the New Critics with the traditional scholarship of their opponents, while avoiding the narrowness of many fashionable modern methodologies such as New Historicism, Neo-Freudianism, radical feminism, etc. This historical perspective involves a c
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction – Shakespeare Relocated: Studies in Historical Psychology – Part II. Historical Psychology Versus "Literary" Criticism – "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy – Personal Identity and Literary Personae – Shakespeare and "Globe"-alization – Shakespeare and Prehistory – Richard III and the Reformation – Part III. How to Write A Renaissance Play – Amatory Magnetism: Shakespeare’s Algorithm – Feminist and Gay Readings of Shakespeare Performances – The Triple Bond: Cinthio, Lope de Vega, and Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet and Lope de Vega’s Castelvines y Monteses – Part IV. Comical-Historical – Shakespeare’s Navarre – Comical Historical: Literary History Beyond Historicism – Shakespeare’s Anti-Reformation Comedies – Ethnic Conflict in Much Ado – Much Ado in Context – Part V. "Reformed" Love Poetry – The Dark Lady as Reformation Mistress – Shakespeare’s Emilias – Aretino Bettered: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 – Donne’s Master: The Young Shakespeare – Proto-Feminism: Seductions in Shakespeare and Milton – Part VI. Tragedy Transcended – "To be or not to be …" Reinterpreted – Iago as Director – Enjoying King Lear – Index.
