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Shakespeare's Hand
Jonathan Goldberg
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Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 600.
A provocative exploration of the relationship between gender, history, and Shakespeare’s plays.
Over the past fifteen years, Jonathan Goldberg’s wide-ranging essays have been among the most sophisticated, influential, and controversial writing about Shakespeare. He challenges the critical orthodoxy, provoking scholars to reassess both their own assumptions and those underpinning the field of Shakespeare studies. Collected in one volume for the first time, these essays offer a sustained, energetic, and rigorous examination of issues of gender and sexuality that pervade Shakespeare’s plays, as well as a road map of the shifts during the past two decades in our understanding of English literature’s ... Read more
Central to these essays are concerns about textuality as considered from a number of vantage points, including deconstructionist, psychoanalytic, and historicist. Goldberg studies most of Shakespeare’s plays, giving particular emphasis to Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and to Romeo and Juliet; he focuses throughout on the relationship between the text as material object and the reality created or reflected by that text. Among the issues he considers are the textual instability of Shakespeare’s plays and the historical instabilities of gender and sexuality depicted in those plays, the construction of gender and the dehumanization implicit in treating characters as a textual production, the function of letters and other documents within the Shakespearean texts, and the correlation of sexual politics and textual desire. Tracing a path from characters in the scriptive sense to their embodiment in characters marked by gender and sexuality, Shakespeare's Hand provides a brilliant set of inquiries into the production, critical reception, and conditions of Shakespearean texts. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816641499
SKU
V9780816641499
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99-15
About Jonathan Goldberg
Jonathan Goldberg is the Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at The Johns Hopkins University. His previous books include Desiring Women Writing (1997), Sodometries (1992), Writing Matter (1990), and, as editor, Reclaiming Sodom (1994) and Queering the Renaissance (1994).
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