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Shakespeare''s tragedies - the plays which represent human experience in its starkest and most terrifying dimensions - are crucial to the postmodern study of early modern subjectivity. In this collection of ground-breaking essays, eminent Shakespearean scholars examine ten of these tragedies through a variety of postmodern frameworks: historical, linguistic and psychoanalytical. Although each essay presents an original perspective on one of Shakespeare''s tragedies, the collection taken as a whole reveals the interdependence of these new critical approaches. The editor''s introduction discusses key issues that link the essays, as well as aspects of postmodern theory that have particular relevance to Shakespeare''s tragedies.>
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Acknowledgements
General Editors' Preface
Introduction; S. Zimmerman
Escaping the Matrix: The Construction of Masculinity in Coriolanus; J.Adelman
The Name of the Rose in Romeo and Juliet; C.Belsey
Spheres of Influence: Cartography and the Gaze in Shakespeare's Roman Plays; P.Armstrong
'Suche Strange Desygns': Madness, Subjectivity and Treason in Hamlet and Elizabethan Culture; K.S.Coddon
Shakespeare Bewitched; S.Greenblatt
'Fashion It Thus': Julius Ceasar and the Politics of Theatrical Representation; J.Drakakis
Perspectives: Dover Cliff and the Condition of Representation; J.Goldberg
Fantasies of 'Race' and 'Gender': Africa, Othello and Bringing to Light; P. Parker
Transvestism and the 'Body Beneath': Speculating on the Boy Actor; P.Stallybrass
'The Swallowing Womb': Consumed and Consuming Women in Titus Andronicus; M.Wynne-Davies
'Funeral Bak'd Meats': Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet; M.D.Bristol
The Ideology of Superfluous Things: King Lear as Period Piece; M.de Grazia
Further Reading
Notes on the Contributors
Index.
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Susan Zimmerman
