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Revisionist Shakespeare: Transitional Ideologies in Texts and Contexts

By Paul Cefalu

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2004
ISBN
9781403964847, 140396484X
LCC
PR3017 .C44 2004
Open Library ID
OL22608074M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5751086 bytes)
Pages
224\224
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

Shakespeare's critics have often claimed that plays such as The Merchant of Venice , King Lear , and Coriolanus allegorize the ways in which class conflict influences the transition from feudalism to capitalism in England. Revisionist historians have argued, however, that the rise of capitalism was more often conditioned by the unintended consequences of social policy, rather than by polarized class positions. This study uses revisionist historical accounts of the transitional period in order to offer a new methodology for understanding the representation of social and economic change in Shakespearean drama.

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