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Shakespeare's Culture of Violence

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1992
ISBN
033357088X, 9780333570883
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22559521 bytes)
Series
Contemporary Interpretations of Shakespeare
Pages
160\161
Time added
2013-09-21 21:56:48

Description

In this book, Derek Cohen studies the relationship of Shakespearean drama to the Western culture of violence. He argues that violence is an inherent feature and form of patriarchy and that its production and control is one of the dominant motives of the political system. Shakespeare's plays supply examples of the way in which the patriarchy of his plays - and hence, perhaps, of modern Western culture - absorbs, naturalizes, and legitimizes violence in its attempts to maintain political control over its subjects.

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