Twelfth Night - Contemporary Critical Essays

This volume presents a wide range of recent critical essays exemplifying different approaches to Shakespeare''s work in general and Twelfth Night in particular. Essays are written from positions of new historicism, deconstruction, feminism, Marxism, reader response, and others. The introduction, written especially for the volume, makes accessible to students at all levels the diversity of the contemporary study of Shakespeare and its wider importance.>

List of contents

Acknowledgements
General Editors' Preface
Introduction; R.S.White
Shakespeare's Poetical Character in Twelfth Night; G.H.Hartman
Twelfth Night: 'The Morality of Indulgence'; E.Krieger
The Festive Agon: The Politics of Carnival; M.D.Bristol
Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres; L.Tennenhouse
Fiction and Friction; S.Greenblatt
'And All is Semblative a Woman's Part': Body Politics and Twelfth Night; D.Callaghan
'What you Will': Social Mobility and Gender in Twelfth Night; C.Malcolmson
Or What You Will; B.Everett
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare, R S White
• Assisted by: White (Editor), R White (Editor), R. White (Editor), R. S. White (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.1996
• EAN: 9780333606773
• ISBN: 978-0-333-60677-3
• No. of pages: 221
• Series: New Casebooks; New Casebooks (Paperback); New Casebooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies