Alternative Shakepeares Volume 2

Description:
Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 consists of nine entirely new essays by some of the world's leading Shakespearean critics, plus an invaluable introduction by Terence Hawkes and an afterword by the editor of the first volume, John Drakakis. The topics include: sexuality and gender language and power race and Shakespeare's Britain new historicist criticism the 'gaze' of the audience blackface make-up in Othello In abandoning forever the search for any final and definitive 'meaning' in any of Shakespeare's plays, the contributors to Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 present an exciting and ultimately liberating challenge to Shakespeare studies. This is Shakespeare for the 21st century. Ania Loomba, Stanford University; Philip Armstrong, University of Auckland; Bruce Smith, Georgetown University; Keir Elam, Universita di Firenze; Margreta de Grazia, University of London; Steven Mulla

Table of Contents:
List of illustrations, List of contributors, General editor's preface, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction Terence Hawkes 2. After the new historicism Steven Mullaney 3. Cleopatra's seduction Catherine Belsey 4. Imprints: Shakespeare, Guttenburg and Descartes Margreta de Grazia 5. L[o]cating the sexual subject Bruce R. Smith 6. How to read 'The Merchant of Venice' without being heterosexist Alan Sinfield 7. 'In what chapter of his bosom?': reading Shakespeare's bodies Keir Elam 8. Shakespeare and cultural difference Ania Loomba 9. 'Othello was a white man': properties of race on Shakespeare's stage Dympna Callaghan 10. Watching Hamlet watching: Lacan, Shakespeare and the mirror/stage Philip Armstrong 11. Afterword: the next generation John Drakakis Notes, Bibliography, Index