Shakespeares Tragedies And Modern Critical Theory

Download or read book Shakespeare's Tragedies and Modern Critical Theory written by James Cunningham and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individual chapters deal with cultural materialism, new historicism, poststructuralism, and feminist criticism. The theoretical basis of each critical mode is examined and some representative critiques analyzed. Most importantly, in each chapter the various interpretations are tested against Shakespeare's texts, and the strengths and weaknesses of the different readings are assessed.