Who needs Shakespeare? / By Sidney Finkelstein.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : International Publishers, [1973]Edition: [1st ed.]Description: 261 pages; 21 cmISBN:- 0717803155
- 822.3/3
- PR 3017 .F5 1973
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | PR 3017 .F5 1973 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML21070033 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259 - 261).
1. Who needs Shakespeare? humanism and politics -- 2. Aristocratic persons and democratic imagery Loves' Labour Lost and the imagery of the sonnets and plays -- 3. The politics of love Romeo and Juliet -- 4. Comedy, economics and morality early comedies and The Merchant of Venice -- 5. English history and the common people King John, Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, Henry V -- 6. The tragic and comic jester Julius Caesar, Hamlet, As You Like it -- 7. Comedy, sweet and bitter Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Merry Wives of Windsor, All's Well That Ends Well, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure -- 8. Love and the state Othello -- 9. One king as fool, another as murderer King Lear, Macbeth -- 10. A critical look at the old and new orders Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens -- 11. A vision of regenerated man Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest -- 12. Humanization and alienation.
"Against the vivid background of the times in which Shakespeare worked, his writings are brilliantly analyzed to show him as a great social thinker, a writer who dealt with politics in its deepest sense - concern with the theory and practice of government and with the condition of civic morality. This challenging and modern theme unfolds with detailed reference to the power and unparalleled beauty of Shakespeare's poetry." -- from the dust jacket.
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