Shakespeare After TheoryRoutledge, 2013 M05 13 - 256 pages The most familiar assertion of Shakespeare scholarship is that he is our contemporary. Shakespeare After Theory provocatively argues that he is not, but what value he has for us must at least begin with a recognition of his distance from us. |
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... insists that our knowledge of it be inescapably partial , in both senses of the word , products both of the traces that have survived and of the shaping concerns of those who study them . Even at this late date , I will happily confess ...
... insists that our knowledge of it be inescapably partial , in both senses of the word , products both of the traces that have survived and of the shaping concerns of those who study them . Even at this late date , I will happily confess ...
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... insists , do not write books . They do write , of course - itself a complexly social act - but what they write are manuscripts or typescripts that get turned into books only with the introduction and interference of any number of new ...
... insists , do not write books . They do write , of course - itself a complexly social act - but what they write are manuscripts or typescripts that get turned into books only with the introduction and interference of any number of new ...
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... insisting that literature is at once socially produced and socially productive . It is an attractive and exhilarating position , though not , it must be said , self - evidently true . This heady claim of reciprocity has never been ...
... insisting that literature is at once socially produced and socially productive . It is an attractive and exhilarating position , though not , it must be said , self - evidently true . This heady claim of reciprocity has never been ...
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... insists that history is not identical with the history of national politics , realizing that the history of national politics inevitably and purposefully erases other histories - histories of women , children , the poor , for example ...
... insists that history is not identical with the history of national politics , realizing that the history of national politics inevitably and purposefully erases other histories - histories of women , children , the poor , for example ...
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... the King by " his Maiesties Seruants , " also insists that the printed text has been " exactly reuewed , corrected , and augmented since by the Author , for themore pleasure and profit of the 36 SHAKESPEARE AFTER THEORY.
... the King by " his Maiesties Seruants , " also insists that the printed text has been " exactly reuewed , corrected , and augmented since by the Author , for themore pleasure and profit of the 36 SHAKESPEARE AFTER THEORY.
Contents
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Editing Shakespeare Today | 59 |
Shakespeare in Print | 71 |
Oldcastle and Falstaff | 93 |
7 | 122 |
The King hath many marching in his Coats | 129 |
Macbeth and the Name of King | 165 |
The Closing of the Theaters | 199 |
Index | 258 |
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