Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism

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The new wave of cultural materialists in Britain and new historicists in the United States here join forces to depose the sacred icon of the "eternal bard" and argue for a Shakespeare who meditates and exploits political, cultural and ideological forces. Ten years on, this second edition presents additional essays by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield.
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Overview

The new wave of cultural materialists in Britain and new historicists in the United States here join forces to depose the sacred icon of the "eternal bard" and argue for a Shakespeare who meditates and exploits political, cultural and ideological forces. Ten years on, this second edition presents additional essays by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780719043529
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publication date: 3/28/2012
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 295
  • Product dimensions: 5.51 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.68 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface to the second edition
Foreword to the first edition: Cultural materialism
1 Introduction: Shakespeare, cultural materialism and the new historicism 2
2 Invisible bullets: Renaissance authority and its subversion, Henry IV and Henry V 18
3 'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': The Tempest and the discourse of colonialism 48
4 Transgression and surveillance in Measure for Measure 72
5 The patriarchal bard: feminist criticism and Shakespeare: King Lear and Measure for Measure 88
6 Strategies of State and political plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VIII 109
7 Shakespeare understudies: the sodomite, the prostitute, the transvestite and their critics 129
8 Introduction: Reproductions, interventions 154
9 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 158
10 Royal Shakespeare: theatre and the making of ideology 182
11 Radical potentiality and institutional closure: Shakespeare in film and television 206
12 How Brecht read Shakespeare 226
13 Heritage and the market, regulation and desublimation 255
Afterword 281
Index 290
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