ENGLISH

Power on display: The politics of Shakespeare's genres

By Leonard Tennenhouse

Book information

Publisher
Methuen
Year
1986
ISBN
041601271X, 9780416012712
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9716276 bytes)
Pages
206\232
Time added
2024-12-08 12:26:15

Description

First published in 1986. 'Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive form may function as a screen for another above all to the political entailment of genre.' Stephen Greenblatt.What is the relation between literary and political power? How do the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice relate to one another? Power on Display considers Shakespeare's progression from romantic comedies and history plays to tragedy and romance in the light of the general process of cultural change in the period.

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