TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Derek
TI  - Searching Shakespeare: studies in culture and authority 
SN  - 9781442679689
AV  - PR2983 .C64 2003
U1  - 822.3/3 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Toronto, Buffalo
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Shakespeare, William,
KW  - National characteristics, English, in literature
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Nationalism and literature
KW  - England
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Literature and history
KW  - Individuality in literature
KW  - Authority in literature
KW  - Culture in literature
KW  - Tragedy
KW  - Littérature et histoire
KW  - Anglais dans la littérature
KW  - Politique et littérature
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Nationalisme et littérature
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Littérature et société
KW  - Individualité dans la littérature
KW  - Autorité dans la littérature
KW  - Culture dans la littérature
KW  - Tragédie
KW  - tragedies
KW  - aat
KW  - DRAMA
KW  - Shakespeare
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index; Tragedy and the nation: Othello -- History and the nation: the second tetralogy -- Slave voices: Caliban and Ariel -- The scapegoat mechanism: Shylock and Caliban -- The self-representations of Othello -- King Lear and memory -- The past of Macbeth -- Messengers of death: the figure of the hit man -- 'noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd: broken human bodies
N2  - "Searching Shakespeare presents a political-historical exploration of Shakespeare's drama, examining the plays in the context of current ideological concerns - history, memory, marginality, and nationalism. Derek Cohen predicates his argument on the supposition that the individual, as much as the encompassing state, is subject to the shaping forces and machinery of the ideological surround." "Shakespeare's plays, Cohen argues, consistently portray the clash between the passionate search for individuality and the quest for social harmony as irresolvable. The playwright's uncanny ability to carry the reader to the edge of imaginary experience - far from the literal world that is made visible by the text - offers an entry into the subtextual and ironic underside of the dramas. It is in this dark and strange world of slavery, mutilation, sexual jealousy, and suborned murder that the implicit political biases of the plays are most evident and it is here, too, that a modern political analysis reveals why Shakespeare portrayed the quest for individuation and self-expression as necessarily ending in tragedy."--Jacket
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