Marxist Shakespeares / Jean E. Howard and Scott Cutler Shershow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh. The book offers new insights into the historical conditions within which Shakespeare's representations of class and gender emerged, and into Shakespeare's role in the global culture industry stretching from Hollywood to the Globe Theatre. A vital resource for students of Shakespeare which includes Marx's own readings of Shakespeare, Derrida on Marx, and also Bourdieu, Bataillle, Negri and Alice Clark.

Marxist Shakespeares; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; General editor's preface; 1 Introduction: Marxism now, Shakespeare now; 2 "Well grubbed, old mole": Marx, Hamlet, and the (un)fixing of representation; 3 An impure history of ghosts: Derrida, Marx, Shakespeare; 4 Looking well to linens: women and cultural production in Othello and Shakespeare's England; 5 "Judicious oeillades": supervising marital property in The Merry Wives of Windsor; 6 The rape of Jesus: Aemilia Lanyer's Lucrece; 7 The undiscovered country: Shakespeare and mercantile geography

8 The management of mirth: Shakespeare via Bourdieu9 Shakespeare's Globe?; 10 The Shakespeare film and the Americanization of culture; 11 Measure for Measure: Marxism before Marx; 12 Shakespeare beyond Shakespeare; Bibliography; Index

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