Ebook: Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2

Alternative Shakespeares, published in 1985, shook up the world of Shakespearean studies, demythologising Shakespeare and applying new theories to the study of his work. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 investigates Shakespearean criticism over a decade later, introducing new debates and new theorists into the frame. Both established scholars and new names appear here, providing a broad cross-section of contemporary Shakespearean studies, including psychoanalysis, sexual and gender politics, race and new historicism. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 represents the forefront of contemporary Shakespearean studies. This urgently-needed addition to a classic work of literary criticism is one which teachers and scholars will welcome.;Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- General editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- I In Lieu -- II Myth -- III History -- IV Culture -- V Meanings -- VI Options -- VII Getting it wrong -- 2 After the new historicism -- I -- II -- III -- 3 Cleopatra's Seduction -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- v -- 4 Imprints: Shakespeare, Gutenberg and Descartes -- I Metaphysics -- II Genetics -- III Metaphorics -- IV Mechanics -- 5 L[o]cating the sexual subject -- 6 How to read The Merchant of Venice without being heterosexist -- I Antonio vs. Portia -- II Property and sodomy -- III Friendly relations -- IV Subcultures and Shakespeare -- 7 'ln what chapter of his bosom?': reading Shakespeare's bodies -- I What a fall -- II Body boom: the Shakespeare Corp -- III 'Where lies your text?': The Shakespearean corpus -- IV Pestilential poetics: the body as symptom -- V The body performative: towards a post(humous)-semiotics of Shakespearean drama -- 8 Shakespeare and cultural difference -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 9 'Othello was a white man': properties of race on Shakespeare's stage -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- 10 Watching Hamlet watching: Lacan, Shakespeare and the mirror/stage -- I A strange accident happening at a play -- II The glass of fashion -- III Enter the imaginary and symbolic -- IV The stage mirror -- V The consciousness of the king -- VI A thing of nothing -- Some critical questions -- 11 Afterword: the next generation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.