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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... published by the University of Málaga Press . I am grateful for permission to reprint those passages here . The title of the book was suggested by a line near the end of Raymond B. Waddington's " What's Past Is Prologue " ( English ...
... published by the University of Málaga Press . I am grateful for permission to reprint those passages here . The title of the book was suggested by a line near the end of Raymond B. Waddington's " What's Past Is Prologue " ( English ...
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... published in 1979 , Richard Levin classified the main trends of Shakespeare criticism in the 1960s and 1970s in three groups : thematic , ironical and historical readings . It seems interesting that Levin should have spoken of ...
... published in 1979 , Richard Levin classified the main trends of Shakespeare criticism in the 1960s and 1970s in three groups : thematic , ironical and historical readings . It seems interesting that Levin should have spoken of ...
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... published in 1942 , where , after studying numerous Puritan treatises and sermons , they reached the conclusion that : From magnifying the religious significance of marriage Puritan thought easily proceeded to magnify the emotional ...
... published in 1942 , where , after studying numerous Puritan treatises and sermons , they reached the conclusion that : From magnifying the religious significance of marriage Puritan thought easily proceeded to magnify the emotional ...
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... published between 1975 and 1977 shows the prevalence of analyses of Rosalind , Kate , Desdemona , Cordelia and Cressida , and titles such as " The Figure of Rosalind in As You Like It ” , “ The Taming of the Shrew : Shakespeare's Mirror ...
... published between 1975 and 1977 shows the prevalence of analyses of Rosalind , Kate , Desdemona , Cordelia and Cressida , and titles such as " The Figure of Rosalind in As You Like It ” , “ The Taming of the Shrew : Shakespeare's Mirror ...
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... published in 1977. Fitz gathers a great variety of critical material , mostly from the twentieth century , but some also from the Romantic and Victorian periods , and concludes that many of the male critics that have written about the ...
... published in 1977. Fitz gathers a great variety of critical material , mostly from the twentieth century , but some also from the Romantic and Victorian periods , and concludes that many of the male critics that have written about the ...
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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