Shakespeare's History Plays Rethinking Historicism

Boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approachesThis important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespear...

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Autor principal: Parvini, Neema (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press 2012
2012.
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Sumario:Boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approachesThis important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (249 p.)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-235) and index.
ISBN:9781474423540
9780748646142
Acceso:Open Access