Alternative Shakespeares

Volume 2

Terence Hawkes

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN: 9780415157803
• eBook ISBN: 9781134780747
• Topic: Letteratura
• Subtopic: Critica letteraria

Alternative Shakespeares, published in 1985, shook up the world of Shakespearean studies, demythologising Shakespeare and applying new theories to the study of his work. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 investigates Shakespearean criticism over a decade later, introducing new debates and new theorists into the frame.
Both established scholars and new names appear here, providing a broad cross-section of contemporary Shakespearean studies, including psychoanalysis, sexual and gender politics, race and new historicism.
Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 represents the forefront of contemporary Shakespearean studies. This urgently-needed addition to a classic work of literary criticism is one which teachers and scholars will welcome.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• General editor’s preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1: Introduction
• 2: After the new historicism
• 3: Cleopatra’s Seduction
• 4: Imprints: Shakespeare, Gutenberg and Descartes
• 5: L[o]cating the sexual subject
• 6: How to read The Merchant of Venice without being heterosexist
• 7: ‘ln what chapter of his bosom?’: reading Shakespeare’s bodies
• 8: Shakespeare and cultural difference
• 9: ‘Othello was a white man’: properties of race on Shakespeare’s stage
• 10: Watching Hamlet watching: Lacan, Shakespeare and the mirror/stage
• 11: Afterword: the next generation
• Notes
• Bibliography