Presentist Shakespeares

Featuring an outstanding list of contributors, this collection of readings adopt a new approach to Shakespeare by focusing on the principles of 'presentism' - a critical movement that takes account of the continual dialogue between past and present.

List of contents

General Editor’s Preface. Introduction: Presenting Presentism. Band of Brothers. Historicising New Historicism. ' . . . And I’m the King of France’. Shakespeare, and Belief, in the Future. Present Text: Editing The Merchant of Venice. Action! Henry V. Lavinia as 'Blank Page' and the Presence of Feminist Critical Practices. Hamlet and the Present: Notes on the Moving Aesthetic 'Now'. Troilus and Cressida: The Perils of Presentism. Notes. Bibliography. Index

About the author

Hugh Grady, Terence Hawkes

Summary

Featuring an outstanding list of contributors, this collection of readings adopt a new approach to Shakespeare by focusing on the principles of ‘presentism’ – a critical movement that takes account of the continual dialogue between past and present.

Product details

• Authors: Hugh (Arcadia University Grady, Hugh Hawkes Grady, Terence Grady Hawkes, HAWKES TERENCE GRADY HUGH
• Assisted by: Hugh Grady (Editor), Hugh (Arcadia University Grady (Editor), Grady Hugh (Editor), Terence Hawkes (Editor), Terence (Emeritus Professor of English Hawkes (Editor), Hawkes Terence (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2006
• EAN: 9780415385282
• ISBN: 978-0-415-38528-2
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Accents on Shakespeare; Accents on Shakespeare
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights