Shakespeare's Universal Wolf: Postmodernist Studies in Early Modern Reification (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198130048)

In Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare's image of "an universal wolf" of appetite, power, and will represented and critiqued the emerging systems of modernity: mercantile capitalism, Machiavellian politics, and value-free rationality. Rereading Troilus, Othello, King Lear, and As You Like It, Grady finds many parallels between Shakespeare's criticism and that of such critics as Marx, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Foucault, among others. In particular, Grady points to Shakespeare's keen interest in the twentieth-century concept of "reification," where social systems spin out of control, operating under their own autonomous logic, beyond the reach of the society which had created them.

Author: Hugh Grady
ISBN-10: 019813004X
ISBN-13: 9780198130048
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 12/05/1996
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d