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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... once sustaining truths make upon us. The contradiction seems a little like the old joke about the restaurant that should be avoided because the food is so very bad and the portions so very small. But the contradiction suggests also that ...
... once sustaining truths make upon us. The contradiction seems a little like the old joke about the restaurant that should be avoided because the food is so very bad and the portions so very small. But the contradiction suggests also that ...
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... once in the world they immediately sought attention from the public frequenting the theater and the bookstalls . At every stage , then , Shakespeare's art solicits other intentions that interact with his work to produce the meanings the ...
... once in the world they immediately sought attention from the public frequenting the theater and the bookstalls . At every stage , then , Shakespeare's art solicits other intentions that interact with his work to produce the meanings the ...
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... must inevitably compromise and disperse any simple notion of authorial intention. Both discursively and materially, authorship is revealed to be more problematic–that is, at once less single and more constrained–than our.
... must inevitably compromise and disperse any simple notion of authorial intention. Both discursively and materially, authorship is revealed to be more problematic–that is, at once less single and more constrained–than our.
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... once for its insidious and subversive power yet also for its insignificance and laughable unintelligibility . Theory is both self - indulgent posturing , as some have argued , a modern scholasticism important only in the lowstakes game ...
... once for its insidious and subversive power yet also for its insignificance and laughable unintelligibility . Theory is both self - indulgent posturing , as some have argued , a modern scholasticism important only in the lowstakes game ...
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... Once one attends to how books are actually produced and reproduced , the fantasy of authorship that theory would contest is apparent . Indeed , put in its baldest form , whatever authors do , they , as Roger Stoddard insists , do not ...
... Once one attends to how books are actually produced and reproduced , the fantasy of authorship that theory would contest is apparent . Indeed , put in its baldest form , whatever authors do , they , as Roger Stoddard insists , do not ...
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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