Hugh Grady (ed.)

Shakespeare and Modernity

Early Modern to Millennium
Herausgeber: Grady, Hugh

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating collection traces the ways in which Shakespeare has been reassessed over the years and explores many issues concerning Shakespeare's modernity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 139mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780415212014
• ISBN-10: 0415212014
• Artikelnr.: 22463138

Autorenporträt

Hugh Grady is Professor of English at Beaver College, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of The Modernist Shakespeare (1991) and Shakespeare's Universal Wolf (1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors Preface Introduction 1. (Post) modern Elizabeth: Gender,
Politics, and the Emergence of Modern Subjectivity 2. Ante-Aesthetics:
Towards a Theory of Early Modern Audience Response 3. Shakespeare,
Modernity and the Aesthetic: Art, Truth and Judgement in The Winters Tale
4. Measure for Measure and Modernity: The Problem of the Sceptic's
Authority 5. 'Jew. Shylock is my name': Speech-prefixes in The Merchant of
Venice as symptoms of the early modern 6. The Merchant of Venice: 'Modern'
Anti-Semitism and the Veil of Allegory 7. Jewish Invader and the Soul of
State: The Merchant of Venice and Science Fiction Movies 8. Shakespeare and
the End of History: Period as Brand Name 9. The Hamlet Formerly Known as
Prince Works Cited Index