Shakespeare and contemporary theory - New historicism and cultural materialism

Neema Parvini

Bloomsbury

2012

240 páginas

8h 0m

ISBN-13: 9781441193933

In the thirty years since Stephen Greenblatt's 'Renaissance Self-Fashioning' overthrew traditional modes of Shakespeare criticism, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism have rapidly become the dominant modes for writing about Shakespeare. This comprehensive guide introduces students to the key writers, texts and ideas of contemporary Shakespeare criticism and alternatives to new historicist and cultural materialist approaches suggested by a range of dissenters including evolutionary critics, historical formalists, advocates of 'the new aestheticism', and the more politically active presentists.