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Shakespeare in theory and practice /

In these essays, collected here for the first time, renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction, together with his moment in history. Teasing out the meanings of the narrative poems, as well as some of the more familiar plays, she...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Belsey, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: practising with theory
  • Psychoanalysis and early modern culture: Lacan with Augustine and Montaigne
  • Love as trompe-l'oeil: taxonomies of desire in Venus and Adonis
  • Tarquin dispossessed: expropriation and consent in The rape of Lucrece
  • Antinomies of desire and the sonnets
  • Peter Quince's ballad: memory, psychoanalysis, history and A midsummer night's dream
  • The illusion of empire: Elizabethan expansionism and Shakespeare's second tetralogy
  • Making histories then and now: Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V
  • The case of Hamlet's conscience
  • Iago the essayist.