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Shakespeare's History Plays : Rethinking Historicism / Neema Parvini.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474423540
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 822.33
LOC classification:
  • PR2982 P378 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE -- Part I Conflicting Moral Visions -- CHAPTER 1 NAVIGATING SHAKESPEARE'S MORAL COMPASS -- CHAPTER 2 THE CONSTRAINED VISION OF EVOLUTIONARY ETHICS -- CHAPTER 3 MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN ENGLAND DURING THE TIME OF SHAKESPEARE -- CHAPTER 4 THE REFORMATION, CAPITALISM AND ETHICS IN ENGLAND DURING THE 1590s AND EARLY 1600s -- Part II Shakespeare's Moral Compass -- CHAPTER 5 PAST REFLECTIONS ON SHAKESPEARE AND MORALITY -- CHAPTER 6 AUTHORITY -- CHAPTER 7 LOYALTY -- CHAPTER 8 FAIRNESS -- CHAPTER 9 SANCTITY -- CHAPTER 10 CARE -- CHAPTER 11 LIBERTY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory PodcastBoldly 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. The book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays.Key Features* Re-evaluates the legacy of new historicism and cultural materialism and intervenes in vital theoretical debates about human nature, the relationship between the individual and society, and the scope for individual political agency* Questions the anti-essentialist, anti-humanist theoretical framework that has held sway in Shakespeare studies since the 1980s and develops a critical practice which appreciates Shakespeare's startling insights into personal agency in history and ideology* Provides original new readings of the first and second tetralogies that demonstrate Shakespeare's unique and radical take on the workings of power, history, and individual agencyKeywordsShakespeare, History Plays, Anti-humanism, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Critical Theory"
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE -- Part I Conflicting Moral Visions -- CHAPTER 1 NAVIGATING SHAKESPEARE'S MORAL COMPASS -- CHAPTER 2 THE CONSTRAINED VISION OF EVOLUTIONARY ETHICS -- CHAPTER 3 MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN ENGLAND DURING THE TIME OF SHAKESPEARE -- CHAPTER 4 THE REFORMATION, CAPITALISM AND ETHICS IN ENGLAND DURING THE 1590s AND EARLY 1600s -- Part II Shakespeare's Moral Compass -- CHAPTER 5 PAST REFLECTIONS ON SHAKESPEARE AND MORALITY -- CHAPTER 6 AUTHORITY -- CHAPTER 7 LOYALTY -- CHAPTER 8 FAIRNESS -- CHAPTER 9 SANCTITY -- CHAPTER 10 CARE -- CHAPTER 11 LIBERTY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory PodcastBoldly 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. The book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays.Key Features* Re-evaluates the legacy of new historicism and cultural materialism and intervenes in vital theoretical debates about human nature, the relationship between the individual and society, and the scope for individual political agency* Questions the anti-essentialist, anti-humanist theoretical framework that has held sway in Shakespeare studies since the 1980s and develops a critical practice which appreciates Shakespeare's startling insights into personal agency in history and ideology* Provides original new readings of the first and second tetralogies that demonstrate Shakespeare's unique and radical take on the workings of power, history, and individual agencyKeywordsShakespeare, History Plays, Anti-humanism, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Critical Theory"

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