The modernist Shakespeare : critical texts in a material world /

A study of the history of Shakespeare criticism in the modern era. Hugh Grady charts the construction of Shakespeare as a 20th-century Modernist text by redirecting "new historicist" methods to an investigation of the social roots of contemporary Shakespeare criticism itself

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grady, Hugh
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Table of Contents:
  • Modernizing Shakespeare: the rise of professionalism
  • Constructing the modernist paradigm and G. Wilson Knight's spatial hermeneutics
  • The new critical Shakespeare: the tensions of unity
  • Professionalism, nationalism, modernism: the case of E.M.W. Tillyard
  • Towards the postmodern Shakespeare: contemporary critical trends.