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Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings.
This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close readings, that a presentist Shakespeare is not an anachronism. Relying on a Brechtian aesthetic of "naive surrealism" as the performative model of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & amp; Francis,
2011.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in Shakespeare.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings; Copyright; Contents; Permissions; Frequently Cited Texts; Introduction: Retheorizing Shakespeare; 1 Spectres of Intention: Epic Theatre and the Lessons of Theory; 2 Boys Will Be Boys: Subtexts and Afterthoughts in the Comedies; 3 Racism and Homophobia in The Merchant of Venice; 4 Love and Object-Cathexis in Troilus and Cressida: Just One of Those Things; 5 The Exotic/Erotic and the Group: Othello; 6 King Lear and the Art of Dying; Notes; Performance Bibliography; Index.