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Twelfth Night R. White

Twelfth Night By R. White

Twelfth Night by R. White


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This volume presents a wide range of recent critical essays exemplifying different approaches to Shakespeare's work in general and Twelfth Night in particular. The introduction, written especially for the volume, makes accessible to students at all levels the diversity of the contemporary study of Shakespeare and its wider importance.

Twelfth Night Summary

Twelfth Night: Contemporary Critical Essays by R. White

This volume presents a wide range of recent critical essays exemplifying different approaches to Shakespeare's work in general and Twelfth Night in particular. Essays are written from positions of new historicism, deconstruction, feminism, Marxism, reader response, and others. The introduction, written especially for the volume, makes accessible to students at all levels the diversity of the contemporary study of Shakespeare and its wider importance.

About R. White

R. S. White is Australian Professorial Fellow, Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English at The University of Western Australia, and Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-1800. Among his other books are Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature (1996), Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s (2008), Pacifism in English Poetry: Minstrels of Peace (2008) and John Keats: A Literary Life (2010) which has been reissued in paperback. He is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association and a Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; R.S.White.- Shakespeare's Poetical Character in Twelfth Night; G.H.Hartman.- Twelfth Night: 'The Morality of Indulgence'; E.Krieger.- The Festive Agon: The Politics of Carnival; M.D.Bristol.- Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres; L.Tennenhouse.- Fiction and Friction; S.Greenblatt.- 'And All is Semblative a Woman's Part': Body Politics and Twelfth Night; D.Callaghan.- 'What you Will': Social Mobility and Gender in Twelfth Night; C.Malcolmson.- Or What You Will; B.Everett.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.

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GOR002896781
9780333606773
0333606779
Twelfth Night: Contemporary Critical Essays by R. White
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1996-10-25
221
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