Paradigms Found: Feminist, Gay, and New Historicist Readings of ShakespeareParadigms Found is an indispensable book for students and teachers of Shakespeare, and for anyone interested in the diverse ways in which his plays are read and taught at the start of the twenty-first century. It traces the paradigm shift in Shakespeare studies which, beginning in the 1970s, has foregrounded the playwright's embeddedness in the material practices and ideological constructs of his time, and focussed on the conflicts, gaps and faultlines in early modern society. The book concentrates on feminism and new historicism as the two critical schools that have brought about significant changes in Shakespeare studies, and devotes a chapter to issues in early modern culture and drama highlighted by gay scholars. Topics covered include: contrasting views on the position of Renaissance women, material feminist criticism, Renaissance attacks and defences of women, the maternal body, boy actors, myths of homosexual desire, theatrical transvestism, the role of anecdotes in new historicist practice, self-fashioning, subversion, anxiety and wonder. In tracking the shifting interests of feminist, gay and new historicist critics, Paradigms Found demonstrates the explanatory power of the new approaches, discusses their limitations and places them in the context of developments in society and the academy. |
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... centuries . As I have written elsewhere , there are three main positions within feminist criticism regarding ... century later , is not yet exhausted . On the other , her enthusiasm made her take her central thesis to extremes ...
... centuries . As I have written elsewhere , there are three main positions within feminist criticism regarding ... century later , is not yet exhausted . On the other , her enthusiasm made her take her central thesis to extremes ...
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... the fact that women's literature anthologies devote little space to works written before the eighteenth century , and that Aphra Benn is considered to be the first English woman writer Reading Shakespeare as Women 13.
... the fact that women's literature anthologies devote little space to works written before the eighteenth century , and that Aphra Benn is considered to be the first English woman writer Reading Shakespeare as Women 13.
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... century's attitude towards manuscript works has resulted in a " tradition " of English literature by women which is distorting and which marginalizes a significant portion of women's literary lives in earlier periods ( Ezell 1990 : 587 ...
... century's attitude towards manuscript works has resulted in a " tradition " of English literature by women which is distorting and which marginalizes a significant portion of women's literary lives in earlier periods ( Ezell 1990 : 587 ...
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... century , but some also from the Romantic and Victorian periods , and concludes that many of the male critics that have written about the Queen of Egypt seem to feel threatened by what Cleopatra is and what she represents ( Fitz 1977 ...
... century , but some also from the Romantic and Victorian periods , and concludes that many of the male critics that have written about the Queen of Egypt seem to feel threatened by what Cleopatra is and what she represents ( Fitz 1977 ...
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... centuries . Neely ends by postulating a mestizo status for Othello , such as the concept has been theorized by Gloria Anzaldúa . The second version of Neely's essay shows clearly the transition from the freshness and originality of ...
... centuries . Neely ends by postulating a mestizo status for Othello , such as the concept has been theorized by Gloria Anzaldúa . The second version of Neely's essay shows clearly the transition from the freshness and originality of ...
Contents
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The Turn to History in Feminist Studies | 23 |
Maternal Subtexts | 43 |
Gay Interventions | 53 |
The Critic as StoryTeller | 71 |
The Pastoral of Power | 83 |
Social Energy and Renaissance Drama | 99 |
The Contest of Paradigms | 127 |
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