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Informationen zum Autor Russ McDonald is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has written extensively on Shakespeare and early modern literature and culture, most recently in Shakespeare and the Art of Language (2001) and The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare (Second Edition, 2001). Klappentext Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1945-2000 contains many of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century. It introduces students of Shakespeare to the variety of theoretical positions, thematic claims, methodologies, and modes of argument that have contributed to the current critical landscape. The collection consists of 49 essays written by a broad range of authors, from E. M. W. Tillyard and William Empson, who represent old-style historicism and a version of New Criticism respectively, to Stephen Greenblatt and Catherine Belsey, who respond to and refute the insights of their predecessors. The essays are organized into categories of critical thought and introduced in clear and accessible language. Taken together, they chronicle a particularly stimulating period in the history of literary study. Zusammenfassung Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory is an anthology of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century. * An anthology of about 50 of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Acknowledgements. 1. Authorship. Looney And The Oxfordians. (S. Schoenbaum). 2. New Criticism. The Naked Babe And The Cloak Of Manliness. (Cleanth Brooks). 'Honest' In Othello. William Empson. 'Introductory' Chapter About The Tragedies. (Wolfgang Clemen). The 'New Criticism' And 'King Lear'. (William R. Keast). 3. Dramatic Kinds. The Argument Of Comedy. (Northrop Frye). Ambivalence: The Dialectic Of The Histories. (A.P Rossiter). Introduction: The Saturnalian Pattern. (C. L. Barber). The Jacobean Shakespeare. (Maynard Mack). 4. THE 1950s and '60s: Structure, Theme, Character. Reflections On The Sentimentalist's Othello. (Barbara Everett). Form And Formality In Romeo And Juliet. (Harry Levin). King Lear Or Endgame. (Jan Kott). The Cheapening Of The Stage. (Anne Righter). How Not To Murder Caesar. (Sigurd Burckhardt). 5. Reader-Response Criticism. On The Value Of Hamlet. (Stephen Booth). Rabbits, Ducks, And (Henry V. Norman Rabkin). 6. Textual Criticism And Bibliography. The New Textual Criticism Of Shakespeare. (Fredson Bowers). Revising Shakespeare. Gary Taylor. Narratives About Printed Shakespeare Texts: 'Foul Papers' And 'Bad Quartos'. (Paul Werstine). 7. Psychoanalytic Readings. 'Anger's My Meat': Feeding, Dependency, And Aggression In Coriolanus. (Janet Adelman). The Avoidance Of Love: A Reading Of King Lear. (Stanley Cavell). To Entrap The Wisest: Sacrificial Ambivalence In The Merchant Of Venice And Richard III. (Rene Girard). What Did The King Know And When Did He Know It? Shakespearean Discourses And Psychoanalysis. (Harry Berger, Jr). The Turn Of The Shrew. (Joel Fineman). 8. Historicism And New Historicism. Introductory: The Cosmic Background. (E.M.W. Tillyard). Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority And Its Subversion, Henry IV And (Henry V. Stephen Greenblatt). The New Historicism In Renaissance Studies. (Jean Howard). Shaping Fantasies: Figurations Of Gender And Power In Elizabethan Culture. (Louis Adrian Montrose). 9. Materialist Criticism. Tradition And Experiment. (Robert Weimann). Radical Tragedy. (...
