Renaissance Drama and Contemporary Literary Theory

Andy Mousley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

244 Seiten

2000
Red Globe Press (Verlag)
978-0-333-69459-6 (ISBN)

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Unlike other introductions to literary theory, this book offers a sustained discussion of a specific period of English Literature. Avoiding the danger of employing theories as templates, the book uses Renaissance drama and literary theory to question and illuminate each other. Love, money, alienation and exotic death are amongst the various topics discussed. The book also provides a distinctive and comprehensive account of literary theory's complex relationship with its main predecessor, humanism. In all, seventeen plays are discussed including well-known texts, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Duchess of Malfi, as well as less-studied plays such as The Knight of the Burning Pestle and The Shoemakers' Holiday.

ANDY MOUSLEY is Senior Lecturer in English at De Montfort University.

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 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: Bartholomew 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.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.5.2000
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 244 p.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-333-69459-7 / 0333694597
ISBN-13	978-0-333-69459-6 / 9780333694596
Zustand	Neuware