Marxist Shakespeares

Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh.

List of contents

1. Introduction : Marxism Now, Shakespeare Now 2. Well Grubbed, Old Mole : Marx, Hamlet and the (Un)Fixing of Representation 3. An Impure History of Ghosts : Derrida, Marx, Shakespeare 4. Looking Well to Linens : Women and Cultural Production in Othello and Shakespeare's England 5. Judicious Oeillades : Surveying Marital Property in The Merry Wives of Windsor 6.The Rape of Jesus : Aemilia Lanyer's Lucrece 7. The Undiscovered Country : Shakespeare and Mercantile Geography 8. Shakespeare's Globe 9. The Shakespeare Film and the Americanization of Culture 10. The Management of Mirth : Shakespeare via Bourdieu 11. Measure for Measure : Marxism Before Marx 12. Shakespeare Beyond Shakespeare

About the author

Jean E. Howard teaches Early Modern literature at Colombia University. Scott Cutler Shershow teaches English literature and literary theory at Miami University.

Summary

Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jean E Howard (Editor), Scott Cutler Shershow (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.10.2000
• EAN: 9780415202336
• ISBN: 978-0-415-20233-6
• No. of pages: 316
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 223 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 553 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies