Marxist ShakespearesJean Elizabeth Howard, Scott Cutler Shershow Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh. The book offers new insights into the historical conditions within which Shakespeare's representations of class and gender emerged, and into Shakespeare's role in the global culture industry stretching from Hollywood to the Globe Theatre. A vital resource for students of Shakespeare which includes Marx's own readings of Shakespeare, Derrida on Marx, and also Bourdieu, Bataillle, Negri and Alice Clark. |
Contents
Marx Hamlet and the unfixing | 16 |
Derrida Marx Shakespeare | 31 |
women and cultural production | 53 |
supervising marital property in | 82 |
Aemilia Lanyers Lucrece | 104 |
Shakespeare and mercantile | 128 |
Shakespeare via Bourdieu | 159 |
Shakespeares Globe? | 178 |
The Shakespeare film and the Americanization of culture | 206 |
Marxism before Marx | 227 |
Shakespeare beyond Shakespeare | 245 |
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References to this book
New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing David Read Limited preview - 2005 |
A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, The Comedies Richard Dutton,Jean E. Howard No preview available - 2005 |