Power on Display : The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415612330
ISBN-13
9780415612333
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 6th, 2010
Print length
218 Pages
Weight
284 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 13.90 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Shakespeare studies & criticism
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Power on Display considers Shakespeare's progression from romantic comedies and history plays to tragedy and romance in the light of the general process of cultural change in the period.
First published in 1986.
''Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive form may function as a screen for another above all to the political entailment of genre.'' Stephen Greenblatt.
What is the relation between literary and political power? How do the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice relate to one another? Power on Display considers Shakespeare''s progression from romantic comedies and history plays to tragedy and romance in the light of the general process of cultural change in the period.
''Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive form may function as a screen for another above all to the political entailment of genre.'' Stephen Greenblatt.
What is the relation between literary and political power? How do the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice relate to one another? Power on Display considers Shakespeare''s progression from romantic comedies and history plays to tragedy and romance in the light of the general process of cultural change in the period.
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