Shakespeare: the Roman PlaysGraham Holderness, Bryan Loughrey, Andrew Murphy An authoritative introduction which considers the Roman plays of Shakespeare - Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus in the light of both traditional and contemporary criticism. The collection of essays reflects the range and impact of modern critical approaches - marxism, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism, psychoanalytic theory and performance analysis on the individual plays and on 'Roman' drama. |
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... living organism . This orientation gives rise to the speech type of popular culture , an idiom that grants special importance to what Bakhtin has called the ' lower bodily stratum , ' and to those processes that mark the individual body ...
... living organism . This orientation gives rise to the speech type of popular culture , an idiom that grants special importance to what Bakhtin has called the ' lower bodily stratum , ' and to those processes that mark the individual body ...
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... living wage ) , this finally began only ten days later , on 3 May . It lasted until 12 May . The General Strike was , it is worth recalling , the major public political demonstration of the century in Britain . Whatever the final ...
... living wage ) , this finally began only ten days later , on 3 May . It lasted until 12 May . The General Strike was , it is worth recalling , the major public political demonstration of the century in Britain . Whatever the final ...
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... living experience , inner authentic conviction ( inneres Erlebnis ) to suggest the sense of that ' immanent inward coherence ' on which such terrifying power rests . Coriolanus evidently possesses and glories in Erlebnis of this sort in ...
... living experience , inner authentic conviction ( inneres Erlebnis ) to suggest the sense of that ' immanent inward coherence ' on which such terrifying power rests . Coriolanus evidently possesses and glories in Erlebnis of this sort in ...
Contents
Shakespeares Roman | 18 |
Julius Caesar and | 32 |
TERENCE HAWKES | 150 |
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