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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of contents
General editor's preface 1 Introduction 2 After the new historicism 3 Cleopatra's seduction 4 Imprints: Shakespeare, Gutenburg and Descartes 5 L[o]cating the sexual subject 6 How to read The Merchant of Venice without being heterosexist 7 'In what chapter of his bosom?': reading Shakespeare's bodies 8 Shakespeare and cultural difference 9 'Othello was a white man': properties of race on Shakespeare's stage 10 Watching Hamlet watching: Lacan, Shakespeare and the mirror / stage 11 Afterword: the next generation
About the author
Terence Hawkes, Professor of English, University of Wales, Cardiff.
Summary
There are many 'Shakespeares', argue the contributors to this, the second volume of Alternative Shakespeares and the different versions emerge in a wide variety of cultural contexts: race, gender, sexuality and politics amongst others. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 consists of entirely new essays by some of the world's leading Shakespearean critics. The topics covered include: Sexuality and Gender, Language and Power, Textualilty and Printing, Race and Shakespeare's Britain, New Historicist Criticism and the 'Gaze' of the Audience. In abandoning the search for any final and definitive 'meaning' in any of Shakepeare's plays, the contributors to Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 present an exciting and ultimately liberating challeneg to Shakespeare studies.
