Shakespeare and Modernity: Early Modern to Millennium

by Grady,Hugh; Grady,Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780415212014
• ISBN10: 0415212014
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-08-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This in-depth collection of essays traces the changing reception of Shakespeare over the past four hundred years, during which time Shakespeare has variously been seen as the last great exponent of pre-modern Western culture, a crucial inaugurator of modernity, and a prophet of postmodernity. This fresh look at Shakespeare's plays is an important contribution to the revival of the idea of 'modernity' and how we periodise ourselves, and Shakespeare, at the beginning of a new millennium.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
General editor's preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction: Shakespeare and modernity	1	(19)
Hugh Grady
(Post) modern Elizabeth: Gender, politics, and the emergence of modern subjectivity	20	(20)
Stephen Cohen
Ante-aesthetics: Towards a theory of early modern audience response	40	(21)
Charles Whitney
Shakespeare, modernity and the aesthetic: Art, truth and judgement in The Winter's Tale	61	(24)
John J. Joughin
Measure for Measure and modernity: The problem of the sceptic's authority	85	(20)
Lars Engle
`Jew. Shylock is my name': Speech prefixes in The Merchant of Venice as symptoms of the early modern	105	(17)
John Drakakis
The Merchant of Venice: `Modern' anti-Semitism and the veil of allegory	122	(20)
Lisa Freinkel
Jewish invader and the soul of state: The Merchant of Venice and science fiction movies	142	(26)
Eric S. Mallin
Shakespeare and the end of history: Period as brand name	168	(21)
Douglas Bruster
The Hamlet formerly known as Prince	189	(22)
Linda Charnes
References	211	(16)
Index	227