SHAKESPEARE, AUTHORITY, SEXUALITY by Alan Sinfield ( 9781134143214 )

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SHAKESPEARE, AUTHORITY, SEXUALITY
UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN CULTURAL MATERIALISM

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ISBN 10:

1134143214

ISBN 13:

9781134143214

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 September, 2006

Series:

Accents on Shakespeare

Pages:

240

Synopsis:

Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. Alan Sinfield examines cultural materialism both as a body of ongoing argument and as it informs particular works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, especially in relation to sexuality in early-modern England and queer theory. The book has several interlocking preoccupations:theories of textuality and reading the political location of Shakespearean plays and the organisation of literary culture today the operation of state power in the early-modern period and the scope for dissidence the sex/gender system in that period and the application of queer theory in history. These preoccupations are explored in and around a range of works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Throughout the book Sinfield re-presents cultural materialism, framing it not as a set of propositions, as has often been done, but as a cluster of unresolved problems. His brilliant, lucid and committed readings demonstrate that the `unfinished business' of cultural materialism - and Sinfield's work in particular - will long continue to produce new questions and challenges for the fields of Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies.

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Routledge

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