Materialist Shakespeare A History

by Kamps, Ivo; Jameson, Fredric

• ISBN13: 9780860916741
• ISBN10: 086091674X
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-07-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

Receptive to influences of such diverse theorists as Derrida, Jameson, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan and Althusser, materialist Shakespeare criticism has long since left behind the days of 'vulgar ' Marxism and has emerged as a rich interpretive practice. The essays chosen for this book cover all of Shakespeare's dramatic genres and include works on King Lear, Othello, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew and Julius Caesar . Contributors: Paul Delany; Louis Adrian Montrose; Walter Cohen; Alan Sinfield; Stephen Greenblatt; Michael D. Bristol; Katherine Eismann Maus; James R. Andreas; Robert Weimann; Graham Holderness; Lynda E. Boose; John Drakakis; Claire McEacherm; Frederic Jameson; and Ivo Kamps.

Author Biography

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture’s relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Materialist Shakespeare: An Introduction	p. 1
King Lear and the Decline of Feudalism	p. 20
'The Place of a Brother' in As You Like It: Social Process and Comic Form	p. 39
The Merchant of Venice and the Possibilities of Historical Criticism	p. 71
Macbeth: History, Ideology and Intellectuals	p. 93
Martial Law in the Land of Cockaigne	p. 108
Charivari and the Comedy of Abjection in Othello	p. 142
Proof and Consequences: Inwardness and Its Exposure in the English Renaissance	p. 157
Othello's African American Progeny	p. 181
Representation and Performance: The Uses of Authority in Shakespeare's Theatre	p. 198
'What Ish My Nation?': Shakespeare and National Identities	p. 218
Scolding Brides and Bridling Scolds: Taming the Woman's Unruly Member	p. 239
'Fashion It Thus': Julius Caesar and the Politics of Theatrical Representation	p. 280
Henry V and the Paradox of the Body Politic	p. 292
Radicalizing Radical Shakespeare: The Permanent Revolution in Shakespeare Studies	p. 320
Notes on Contributors	p. 329
Index	p. 331
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