Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'
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Alternative Shakespeares
Author_Tom McAlindon
bullets
Caliban's Curse
Caliban’s Curse
Call Attention
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cultural materialism debate
Discordia Concors
Doctor Faustus
dollimore
early modern literary criticism
Edward III
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essentialist tragedy studies
Falstaff
Harriot's Text
Harriot’s Text
Henry IV
Ideological Stratagem
interpretative methodologies
invisible
Invisible Bullets
Jerome's Bible
Jerome’s Bible
john
jonathan
king
lear
Machiavellian Hypotheses
Modern Language Association
new historicism critique
OED
oldcastle
Paul The Apostle
radical
radical readings of Shakespeare plays
Radical Tragedy
Renaissance drama analysis
Richard II
Richard III
Shakespearean Tragedy
sir
Sir John Falstaff
Sir John Oldcastle
Timeless
Vice Versa
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138378889
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Demonstrating and defending a method of close reading and historical contextualisation of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, this collection of essays by Tom McAlindon combines a number of previously published pieces with original studies. The volume includes six interpretative studies, all but one of which involve challenges to radical readings of the plays involved, including Henry V, Coriolanus, The Tempest, and Doctor Faustus. The other three essays are critiques of the claims and methods of radical, postmodernist criticism (new historicism and cultural materialism especially); they illustrate the author's conviction that some leading scholars in the field of Renaissance literature and drama, who deserve credit for shifting attention to new areas of interest, must also be charged with responsibility for a marked decline in standards of analysis, interpretation, and argument. Likely to provoke considerable debate, this stimulating collection is an important contribution to Shakespeare studies.
Tom McAlindon works in the Department of English at the University of Hull, UK. His main research interest is in Renaissance drama. He has published widely and is the author of Shakespeare and Decorum (1973), English Renaissance Tragedy (1986), Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos (1991), Divine in Show: Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus (1995), and Shakespeare's Tudor History (2002).
