Lisa Hopkins

Beginning Shakespeare

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Introduces students to the study of Shakespeare and grounds their understandings of his work in theoretical discourses. By addressing what is primarily at stake in the major theoretical approaches to Shakespeare's works, the book breaks down both fears and preconceptions to offer students a map of the current critical practices of others. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Beginnings
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9780719064234
• ISBN-10: 0719064236
• Artikelnr.: 21975363

Autorenporträt

Lisa Hopkins is Professor Emerita of English at Sheffield Hallam University

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Critical Histories I. 1598-1741: A bumpy
ride ii. 1741-1904: Enter Shakespear iii. Enshrinement iv. A.C.Bradley and
character study v. The Thirties: images and patterns vi. Tillyard and the
'Elizabethan world picture' vii. Jan Kott: Shakespeare our contemporary 2.
Psychoanalysis I. Freud and his early followers ii. C.G. Jung and the
theory of 'types and archetypes' iii. Jacques Lacan and the theory of the
subject iv. Post-Lacanian psychoanalytical approaches 3. New Historicism I.
Stephen Greenblatt: 'invisible bullets' ii. Louis Montrose: New Historicism
meets psychoanalysis iii. Leonard Tennenhouse and the interests of power
iv. Later developments: New Historicism meets gender 4. Cultural
Materialism I. Political Shakespeare: a landmark text ii. Dollimore and
Sinfield: literature and power iii. Terence Hawkes and the politics of
meaning 5. New factualisms I. The 'new biography' ii. Attribution studies
iii. Editing 6. Gender studies and queer theory I. Boy actors ii. Political
feminisms iii. Queer theory 7. Postcolonial criticism I. 'The Tempest' ii.
Postcolonial 'Tempests' iii. 'Othello' 8. Shakespeare in performance I.
'Henry V' in performance ii. The Olivier version iii. Stratford-upon-Avon
iv. Political performance criticism?