Marxist Shakespeares

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Jean Elizabeth Howard, Scott Cutler Shershow
Psychology Press, 2001 - Drama - 304 pages

Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh. The book offers new insights into the historical conditions within which Shakespeare's representations of class and gender emerged, and into Shakespeare's role in the global culture industry stretching from Hollywood to the Globe Theatre. A vital resource for students of Shakespeare which includes Marx's own readings of Shakespeare, Derrida on Marx, and also Bourdieu, Bataillle, Negri and Alice Clark.

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Contents

Introduction Marxism now Shakespeare now
1
Well grubbed old mole Marx Hamlet and the unfixing of representation
16
An impure history of ghosts Derrida Marx Sharekspeare
31
Looking well to linens women and cultural production in Othello and Shakespeares England
53
Judicious oeillades supervising marital property in The Merry Waives of Windsor
82
The rape of Jesus Aemilia Lanyers Lucirce
104
The undiscovered country Shakespeare and mercantile geography
128
The management of mirth Shakespeare via Bourdieu
159
Shakespeares Globe?
178
The Shakespeare film and the Americanization of culture
206
Measure for Measure Marxism before Marx
227
Shakespeare beyond Shakespeare
245
Bibliography
265
Index
287
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