Pt. 1. Recovering History. Introduction : Shakespeare, Cultural Materialism And The New Historicism / Jonathan Dollimore -- Invisible Bullets : Renaissance Authority And Its Subversion, Henry Iv And Henry V / Stephen Greenblatt -- This Thing Of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine : The Tempest And The Discourse Of Colonialism / Paul Brown -- Transgression And Surveillance In Measure For Measure / Jonathan Dollimore -- The Patriarchal Bard : Feminist Criticism And Shakespeare : King Lear And Measure For Measure / Kathleen Mcluskie -- Strategies Of State And Political Plays : A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry Iv, Henry V, Henry Viii / Leonard Tennenhouse -- Shakespeare Understudies : The Sodomite, The Prostitute, The Transvestite And Their Critics / Jonathan Dollimore -- (cont.) Pt. 2. Reproductions, Interventions. Introduction : Reproductions, Interventions / Alan Sinfield -- Give An Account Of Shakespeare And Education, Showing Why You Think They Are Effective And What You Have Appreciated About Them. Support Your Comments With Precise References / Alan Sinfield -- Royal Shakespeare : Theatre And The Making Of Ideology / Alan Sinfield -- Radical Potentiality And Institutional Closure : Shakespeare In Film And Television / Graham Holderness -- How Brecht Read Shakespeare / Margot Heinemann -- Heritage And The Market, Regulation And Desublimation / Alan Sinfield -- Afterword / Raymond Williams. Edited By Jonathan Dollimore And Alan Sinfield. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield

Comstock Publishing Associates

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Cornell paperbacks, 2nd ed, Ithaca, 1994

United States, United States of America

2nd ed., Ithaca, New York State, 1994

2nd edition, October 1994

2nd edition, July 1994

2, US, 1994

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The new wave of cultural materialists in Britain and new historicists in the United States here join forces to depose the sacred icon of the "eternal bard" and argue for a Shakespeare who meditates and exploits political, cultural and ideological forces. Ten years on, this second edition presents additional essays by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield.

One of the most important achievements of 'theory' in English studies has been the making possible a truly interdisciplinary approach to  some might say exit from  the subject.

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