Materialist Shakespeare : An Introduction / Ivo Kamps -- King Lear And The Decline Of Feudalism / Paul Delany -- The Place Of A Brother In As You Like It : Social Process And Comic Form / Louis Adrian Montrose -- The Merchant Of Venice And The Possibilities Of Historical Criticism / Walter Cohen -- Macbeth : History, Ideology, And Intellectuals / Alan Sinfeld -- Martial Law In The Land Of Cockaigne / Stephen Greenblatt -- Charivari And The Comedy Of Abjection In Othello / Michael D. Bristol -- Proof And Consequence : Inwardness And Its Exposure In The English Renaissance / Katharine Eisaman Maus -- (cont.) Othello's African American Progeny / James R. Andreas -- Representation And Performance : The Uses Of Authority In Shakespeare's Theatre / Robert Weimann -- What Ish My Nation? : Shakespeare And National Identities / Graham Holderness -- Scolding Brides And Bridling Scolds : Taming The Woman's Unruly Member / Lynda E. Boose -- Fashion It Thus : Julius Caesar And The Politics Of Theatrical Representation / John Drakakis -- Henry V And The Paradox Of The Body Politic / Claire Mceachern -- Radicalizing Radical Shakespeare : The Permanent Revolution In Shakespeare Studies / Frederic Jameson. Edited By Ivo Kamps. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Kamps, Ivo

Ivo Kamps

Verso Editions

New Left Books

Verso Books

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

August 1995

This anthology traces the ascendancy of materialist Shakespeare criticism in the United States and Great Britain over the past decade-and-a-half, influenced by such diverse theorists as Derrida, Jameson, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan and Althusser.

This anthology traces the ascendency of materialist Shakespeare criticism over the past 15 years. Influenced by a diversity of theorists, the essays bear witness to the emergence of material- list criticism as a rich, interpretative practice

ix, 342 p. : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references
96 10 01

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