Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349542642)

To 'rematerialize' in the sense of Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage is not to recover a lost material infrastructure, as Marx spoke of, nor is it to restore to some material existence its priority over the imaginary. Indeed, this collection of work by some of the most highly-regarded critics in Shakespeare studies does not offer a single theoretical stance on any of the various forms of critical materialism (Marxism, cultural materialism, new historicism, transversal poetics, gender studies, or performance criticism), but rather demonstrates that the materiality of Shakespeare is multidimensional and consists of the imagination, the intended, and the desired. Nothing returns in this rematerialization, unless it is a return in the sense of the repressed, which, when it comes back, comes back as something else. An all-star line-up of contributors includes Kate McLuskie, Terence Hawkes, Catherine Belsey and Doug Bruster.

Author: B. Reynolds
ISBN-10: 1349542644
ISBN-13: 9781349542642
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2005
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d