New Historicism and Renaissance Drama (Longman Critical Readers)

Wilson, Richard/ Dutton, Richard

Routledge（2017/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138164598
• DDC分類 822.309

Full Description

New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama, providing an important collection both for students of the genre and of literary theory.

Contents

Introduction: Historicising New Historicism, Richard Wilson; Chapter 1 The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies, Jean E. Howard; Chapter 2 Literature, History, Polities, Catherine Belsey; Chapter 3 Shakespeare, Cultural Materialism and the New Historicism, Jonathan Dollimore; Chapter 4 Marlowe and the Will to Absolute Play, Stephen Greenblatt; Chapter 5 Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and its Subversion, Henry IV and Henry V, Stephen Greenblatt; Chapter 6 A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Shaping Fantasies of Elizabethan Culture: Gender, Power, Form, Louis Montrose; Chapter 7 Alice Arden's Crime, Catherine Belsey; Chapter 8 Shakespeare's Roman Carnival, Richard Wilson; Chapter 9 Hamlet's Unfulfilled Interiority, Francis Barker; Chapter 10 Macbeth: History, Ideology and Intellectuals, Alan Sinfield; Chapter 11 The White Devil: Transgression Without Virtue, Jonathan Dollimore; Chapter 12 Family Rites: City Comedy and the Strategies of Patriarchalism, Leonard Tennenhouse; Chapter 13 Smithfield and Authorship: Ben Jonson, Peter Stallybrass, Allon White; Postscript, Richard Dutton;