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William Shakespeare by Terry Eagleton (1991, Trade Paperback)

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William Shakespeare, Paperback by Eagleton, Terry, ISBN 0631145540, ISBN-13 9780631145547, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Offers a fresh perspective on nearly all of Shakespeare's plays, using modern Marxist, feminist, and semiotic critical theories

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PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

ISBN-100631145540

ISBN-139780631145547

eBay Product ID (ePID)1145315

Product Key Features

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameWilliam Shakespeare

Publication Year1991

SubjectShakespeare

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorTerry Eagleton

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN85-022927

Dewey Edition19

Reviews"Brilliant little book... dazzling and exhilarating... Eagleton is alive to the excitement and originality of a great playwright." Sunday Times "When you read this book you feel Eagleton's pleasure in reading Shakespeare's works. He deals with the plays in chapters which cut across the well-used categories and an excitement is created by the unexpectedness of the directions which he takes." Marxism Today "Always provocative, Mr. Eagleton does in print what directors regularly do on stage: change the century, stitch up new costumes, but preserve the story line and language." Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times, "Brilliant little book ... dazzling and exhilarating ... Eagleton is alive to the excitement and originality of a great playwright." Sunday Times "When you read this book you feel Eagleton's pleasure in reading Shakespeare's works. He deals with the plays in chapters which cut across the well-used categories and an excitement is created by the unexpectedness of the directions which he takes." Marxism Today "Always provocative, Mr. Eagleton does in print what directors regularly do on stage: change the century, stitch up new costumes, but preserve the story line and language." Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times, "Brilliant little book ... dazzling and exhilarating ... Eagleton is alive to the excitement and originality of a great playwright." Sunday Times"When you read this book you feel Eagleton's pleasure in reading Shakespeare's works. He deals with the plays in chapters which cut across the well-used categories and an excitement is created by the unexpectedness of the directions which he takes." Marxism Today"Always provocative, Mr. Eagleton does in print what directors regularly do on stage: change the century, stitch up new costumes, but preserve the story line and language." Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal822.3/3

Table Of ContentPreface ix 1 Language: Macbeth, Richard II, Henry IV 1 2 Desire: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night 18 3 Law: The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida 35 4 'Nothing': Othello, Hamlet, Coriolanus 64 5 Value: King Lear, Timon of Athens, Antony and Cleopatra 76 6 Nature: As You Like It, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest 90 Conclusion 97 Notes 105 Index 109

SynopsisThis is a bold and original reinterpretation of almost all of Shakespeares major plays, in the light of the Marxist, feminist and semiotic ideas of our own time. Through a set of tenaciously detailed readings, the book illuminates a number of persistent problems or conflicts in Shakespearean drama - in particular a contradiction between words and things, body and language, which is also explored in terms of law, sexuality and Nature., This is a bold and original reinterpretation of almost all of Shakespeares major plays, in the light of the Marxist, feminist and semiotic ideas of our own time., This is a bold and original reinterpretation of almost all of Shakespeare's major plays, in the light of the Marxist, feminist and semiotic ideas of our own time. Through a set of tenaciously detailed readings, the book illuminates a number of persistent problems or conflicts in Shakespearean drama - in particular a contradiction between words and things, body and language, which is also explored in terms of law, sexuality and Nature. Language and desire, Terry Eagleton argues, are seen by Shakespeare as a kind of 'surplus' over and above the body, stable and social roles and a fixed human nature. But the attitude of the plays to such a 'surplus' is profoundly ambivalent; if they admire it as the very source of human creativity, they also fear its anarchic, trangressive force. Underlying such ambiguities, the book convincingly shows, is a deeper ideological struggle, between feudalist traditionalism on the one hand, and the emergence of new forms of bourgeois individualism on the other. This book revels how, in the light of our own contemporary theories of language, sexuality and society, we can understand the issues present in Shakespeare's drama which previously have remained obscure.

LC Classification NumberPR2976.E17 1987