New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

List of contents

Introduction: Historicising New Historicism, Richard Wilson; Chapter 1 The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies, Jean E. Howard; Chapter 2 Literature, History, Polities, Catherine Belsey; Chapter 3 Shakespeare, Cultural Materialism and the New Historicism, Jonathan Dollimore; Chapter 4 Marlowe and the Will to Absolute Play, Stephen Greenblatt; Chapter 5 Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and its Subversion, Henry IV and Henry V, Stephen Greenblatt; Chapter 6 A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Shaping Fantasies of Elizabethan Culture: Gender, Power, Form, Louis Montrose; Chapter 7 Alice Arden‘s Crime, Catherine Belsey; Chapter 8 Shakespeare’s Roman Carnival, Richard Wilson; Chapter 9 Hamlet’s Unfulfilled Interiority, Francis Barker; Chapter 10 Macbeth: History, Ideology and Intellectuals, Alan Sinfield; Chapter 11 The White Devil: Transgression Without Virtue, Jonathan Dollimore; Chapter 12 Family Rites: City Comedy and the Strategies of Patriarchalism, Leonard Tennenhouse; Chapter 13 Smithfield and Authorship: Ben Jonson, Peter Stallybrass, Allon White; Postscript, Richard Dutton;

Product details

• Authors: Richard Dutton, Richard Wilson, Richard Dutton Wilson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138164598
• ISBN: 978-1-138-16459-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Longman Critical Readers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights