Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare - A Marxist Study

This companion volume to "Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen" sets out to rescue Shakespearean studies from the increasingly solipsistic terrain of literary criticism, focusing instead on historical location as a means to understanding Shakespeare's writing.

About the author

Victor Kiernan (1913-2009) was Chair of Modern History at Edinburgh University. A member of the Communist Party Historians' Group with E. P. Thompson and Christopher Hill, he spent several years teaching in Lahore and translated the Urdu poets Iqbal and Faiz. His many books included Lords of Human Kind, America: The New Imperialism, and studies of Horace and Shakespeare.

Summary

This companion volume to "Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen" sets out to rescue Shakespearean studies from the increasingly solipsistic terrain of literary criticism, focusing instead on historical location as a means to understanding Shakespeare's writing.

Product details

• Authors: V. G. Kiernan, Victor G Kiernan
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.1996
• EAN: 9781859840894
• ISBN: 978-1-85984-089-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Marxism & Communism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean