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Renaissance drama and contemporary literary theory

Title
Renaissance drama and contemporary literary theory / Andy Mousley.
Author
Mousley, Andy, 1959-
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Description
viii, 244 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"This book offers a sustained discussion of a specific period of English literature. The author uses Renaissance drama and contemporary theory to question and illuminate each other. The volume works on several levels. It provides a comprehensive account of key modern literary theories and presents detailed applications of them to a wide range of Renaissance plays. It also offers a new way of thinking about the relationship of modern literary theory to its main predecessor, humanism. Finally, it writes a history, which Renaissance drama and modern theory are seen as sharing, of the antagonisms and attempted reconciliations between signs and psyche, objects and subjects, history and self, and language and the human."--Jacket.
Subject
  • 1500-1999
  • English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism > Theory, etc
  • English drama > 17th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc
  • Criticism > History > 20th century
  • Renaissance > England
  • Criticism
  • Renaissance
  • Toneelstukken
  • Engels
  • Literatuurtheorie
  • England
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-237) and index.
Contents
Semiotics -- Tamburlaine; The Knight of the Burning Pestle; Othello -- Structuralism -- King Lear; The Duchess of Malfi; Hamlet; The Spanish Tragedy -- Poststructuralism -- A Midsummer Night's Dream; Hamlet; The Alchemist -- Psychoanalysis -- Bartholmew Fair; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore -- Historicism -- The White Devil; As You Like It; Henry V -- Feminism -- The Duchess of Malfi; The Roaring Girl -- Marxism -- The Shoemakers' Holiday; Macbeth.
ISBN
  • 0312231733
  • 9780312231736
  • 0312231741
  • 9780312231743
  • 0333694589
  • 9780333694589
  • 0333694597
  • 9780333694596
LCCN
  • 99056334
  • 9780333694596
OCLC
  • ocm42786228
  • 42786228
  • SCSB-14508440
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library