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Shakespeare in Theory and Practice

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Description for Shakespeare in Theory and Practice Paperback. In these essays, brought together here for the first time, world-renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 346.
Theory is valuable to the degree that it enables us to read differently: a nuanced approach shows that the most obvious interpretation is never the whole story. In these essays, brought together here for the first time, world-renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction, together with his moment in history. Teasing out the meanings of the narrative poems, as well as some of the more familiar plays, Shakespeare in Theory and Practice demonstrates the possibilities of an attention to textuality that also draws on the archive. A reading of the Sonnets, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748640461
SKU
V9780748640461
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About Catherine Belsey
Catherine Belsey is currently Research Professor at Swansea University and formerly Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University. Best known for her pioneering book, Critical Practice (Methuen, 1980), Catherine Belsey has an international reputation as a deft and sophisticated critical theorist and subtle and eloquent critic of literature, particularly of Renaissance texts. Her books include The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and ... Read more

Reviews for Shakespeare in Theory and Practice
All of the essays attest to Belsey's career-long commitment to theory and its ability to deliver new ways of reading ! Her attention in this collection to materiality and wordplay is indicative of her considerable skills as a close reader. Shakespeare Survey These are essays of love, as well as about love, and this makes them unusually sensitive...Belsey's insistence on ... Read more

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