Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays: A Marxist ApproachFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986 - 168 páginas Explains how an adherent to the so-called Christian interpretation of Shakespeare can be a Marxist critic. Shakespeare's history plays, Siegel contends, were shaped by the Christian humanist ideology of the new Tudor aristocracy and are subtle works of art whose characters are complex creations, not mere spokesmen for social classes. |
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... past . The historical study of Shakespeare is not , then , merely an exercise in antiquarianism . In the words of Robert Weimann , “ for liter- ary history to study past significance makes no sense without an awareness of present ...
... past . The historical study of Shakespeare is not , then , merely an exercise in antiquarianism . In the words of Robert Weimann , “ for liter- ary history to study past significance makes no sense without an awareness of present ...
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... past , of a court whose king learns each " vanity- / So be it new , there's no respect how vile " ( 2.1.24- 25 ) that is initiated abroad by " proud Italy . " Richard is , then , a devotee of that Italianism which Elizabethans felt was ...
... past , of a court whose king learns each " vanity- / So be it new , there's no respect how vile " ( 2.1.24- 25 ) that is initiated abroad by " proud Italy . " Richard is , then , a devotee of that Italianism which Elizabethans felt was ...
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... past therefore imposes constraints on all men and women seeking to affect their time . Yet what individuals do within the range of possibilities that history permits them may have a crucial effect . Henry IV's acceptance of the ...
... past therefore imposes constraints on all men and women seeking to affect their time . Yet what individuals do within the range of possibilities that history permits them may have a crucial effect . Henry IV's acceptance of the ...
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Preface | 9 |
Marxism and Shakespearean Criticism | 15 |
The Marxist Approach and Shakespearean Studies Today | 30 |
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Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays: A Marxist Approach Paul N. Siegel Vista previa limitada - 1986 |
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