Misrepresentations
Shakespeare and the Materialists
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2018
330 pages
978-1-5017-2230-1 (ISBN)
Description
Just at the moment when conflicts between critical "isms" are threatening to turn the study of English literature into a game park for endangered texts, Bradshaw arrives with a work of liberating wit and insight. His subject is double: the Shakespeare.
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Graham Bradshaw is Reader in English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Graham Bradshaw is Reader in English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Content
- Cover
- Misrepresentations
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Text
- PROLOGUE Is Shakespeare Evil?
- Reviving Tillyard
- Buddies
- Chaotic Sites
- The E-Effect
- CHAPTER ONE Being Oneself: New Historicists, Cultural Materialists, and Henry V
- The Trouble with Harry
- The Historiographical Challenge
- Dramatic "Rhyming
- Who Them? Where Us?
- Systems in Force
- Being Oneself
- CHAPTER TWO Dramatic Intentions: Two-Timing in Shakespeare's Venice
- Jessica's Lie
- Complex Designs
- Obeying the Time
- Fashioning Othello
- A Choice of Delusions
- A Horrible Conceite
- EPILOGUE The New Historicist as Iago
- Seeing Through Seeing Through
- The Fear of Being Taken In
- The Riverbed
- Othello 1980
- APPENDIX Dashing Othello's Spirits
- Notes
- Index
