Shakespeare : an anthology of criticism and theory, 1945-2000
Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory is an anthology of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century. * An anthology of about 50 of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Preface x Acknowledgments xiv Part I Authorship 1 1 Looney and the Oxfordians 4 S. Schoenbaum Part II New Criticism 15 2 The Naked Babe and the Cloak of Manliness 19 Cleanth Brooks 3 ‘‘Honest’’ in Othello 35 William Empson 4 ‘‘Introductory’’ Chapter About the Tragedies 50 Wolfgang Clemen 5 The ‘‘New Criticism’’ and King Lear 63 William R. Keast Part III Dramatic Kinds 89 6 The Argument of Comedy 93 Northrop Frye 7 Ambivalence: The Dialectic of the Histories 100 A. P. Rossiter 8 The Saturnalian Pattern 116 C. L. Barber 9 The Jacobean Shakespeare: Some Observations on the Construction of the Tragedies 125 Maynard Mack Part IV The 1950s and 1960s: Theme, Character, Structure 149 10 Reflections on the Sentimentalist’s Othello 152 Barbara Everett 11 Form and Formality in Romeo and Juliet 164 Harry Levin 12 King Lear or Endgame 174 Jan Kott 13 The Cheapening of the Stage 191 Anne Righter [Barton] 14 How Not to Murder Caesar 209 Sigurd Burckhardt Part V Reader-Response Criticism 221 15 On the Value of Hamlet 225 Stephen Booth 16 Rabbits, Ducks, and Henry V 245 Norman Rabkin Part VI Textual Criticism and Bibliography 265 17 The New Textual Criticism of Shakespeare 269 Fredson Bowers 18 Revising Shakespeare 280 Gary Taylor 19 Narratives About Printed Shakespeare Texts: ‘‘Foul Papers’’ and ‘‘Bad Quartos’’ 296 Paul Werstine Part VII Psychoanalytic Criticism 319 20 ‘‘Anger’s my meat’’: Feeding, Dependency, and Aggression in Coriolanus 323 Janet Adelman 21 The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear 338 Stanley Cavell 22 To Entrap the Wisest: Sacrificial Ambivalence in The Merchant of Venice and Richard III 353 René Girard 23 What Did the King Know and When Did He Know It? Shakespearean Discourses and Psychoanalysis 365 Harry Berger, Jr. 24 The Turn of the Shrew 399 Joel Fineman Part VIII Historicism and New Historicism 417 25 The Cosmic Background 422 E. M. W. Tillyard 26 Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and its Subversion, Henry IV and Henry V 435 Stephen Greenblatt 27 The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies 458 Jean E. Howard 28 ‘‘Shaping Fantasies’’: Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture 481 Louis Adrian Montrose Part IX Materialist Criticism 511 29 Shakespeare’s Theater: Tradition and Experiment 515 Robert Weimann 30 King Lear (ca. 1605–1606) and Essentialist Humanism 535 Jonathan Dollimore 31 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 547 Alan Sinfield Part X Feminist Criticism 565 32 Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in Antony and Cleopatra Criticism 570 L. T. Fitz [Linda Woodbridge] 33 ‘‘I wooed thee with my sword’’: Shakespeare’s Tragic Paradigms 591 Madelon Gohlke Sprengnether 34 The Family in Shakespeare Studies; or Studies in the Family of Shakespeareans; or The Politics of Politics 606 Lynda E. Boose 35 Disrupting Sexual Difference: Meaning and Gender in the Comedies 633 Catherine Belsey Part XI Studies in Gender and Sexuality 651 36 ‘‘This that you call love’’: Sexual and Social Tragedy in Othello 655 Gayle Greene 37 The Performance of Desire 669 Stephen Orgel 38 The Secret Sharer 684 Bruce R. Smith 39 The Homoerotics of Shakespearean Comedy 704 Valerie Traub Part XII Performance Criticism 727 40 Shakespeare and the Blackfriars Theatre 732 Gerald Eades Bentley 41 The Critical Revolution 745 J. L. Styan 42 William Shakespeare’s Romeo þ Juliet : Everything’s Nice in America? 750 Barbara Hodgdon 43 Deeper Meanings and Theatrical Technique: The Rhetoric of Performance Criticism 762 William B. Worthen Part XIII Postcolonial Shakespeare 777 44 Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish: The Discursive Con-texts of The Tempest 781 Francis Barker and Peter Hulme 45 Sexuality and Racial Difference 794 Ania Loomba 46 Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in The Tempest 817 Meredith Anne Skura Part XIV Reading Closely 845 47 Shakespeare’s Prose 848 Jonas A. Barish 48 The Play of Phrase and Line 861 George T. Wright 49 Transfigurations: Shakespeare and Rhetoric 880 Patricia Parker Index 908