{"product_id":"shakespeare-authority-sexuality-1","title":"Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShakespeare, Authority, Sexuality\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. Alan Sinfield examines cultural materialism both as a body of ongoing argument and as it informs particular works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, especially in relation to sexuality in early-modern England and queer theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book has several interlocking preoccupations:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etheories of textuality and reading \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe political location of Shakespearean plays and the organisation of literary culture today \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe operation of state power in the early-modern period and the scope for dissidence \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe sex\/gender system in that period and the application of queer theory in history. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese preoccupations are explored in and around a range of works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Throughout the book Sinfield re-presents cultural materialism, framing it not as a set of propositions, as has often been done, but as a cluster of unresolved problems. His brilliant, lucid and committed readings demonstrate that the ‘unfinished business’ of cultural materialism - and Sinfield’s work in particular - will long continue to produce new questions and challenges for the fields of Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54239395316056,"sku":"9780415402361","price":51.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415402361_fc688e4f-2be9-4fe1-8fd8-ce80f0b99f60.jpg?v=1769715937","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/shakespeare-authority-sexuality-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}