Shakespeare

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Shakespeare

Kiernan Ryan

Prentice Hall, 1995

2nd ed

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Includes index

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Description

This text mounts a challenge to orthodox and oppositional critics who continue to regard Shakespearian drama as conservative in intent or effect.

Table of Contents

  • Reinterpreting Shakespeare today - new critical perspectives
  • re-reading "The Merchant of Venice"
  • the historical dimension
  • the future of history - 1 and 2 Henry IV
  • the politics of interpretation
  • "From Prince to a Prentice"
  • "Of Things/As Yet Not Come to Life"
  • Shakespearian tragedy
  • the subversive imagination - questioning the consensus
  • "Romeo and Juliet" - the murdering word
  • that's he that was "Othello"
  • "Macbeth" - for mine own good
  • "King Lear" - "Men/Are As The Time Is"
  • Shakespearean comedy and romance - the utopian imagination
  • "Let Wonder Seem Familiar"
  • "The Tempest" - the complicities of art.

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