Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory by Neema Parvini - 9781441111272

Shakespeare and Contemporary TheoryNew Historicism and Cultural Materialism\nAuthor(s): Neema Parvini\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781441111272, 978-1441111272\nSynopsis\nIn the thirty years since the\npublication of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning\noverthrew traditional modes of Shakespeare criticism, New Historicism and Cultural\nMaterialism have rapidly become the dominant modes for studying and writing\nabout the Bard. This comprehensive guide introduces students to the key\nwriters, texts and ideas of contemporary Shakespeare criticism and alternatives\nto new historicist and cultural materialist approaches suggested by a range of\ndissenters including evolutionary critics, historical formalists and advocates\nof 'the new aestheticism', and the more politically active presentists. \n\n Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory covers such topics as: \nThe key theoretical\ninfluences on .