Shakespeare and MarxOUP Oxford, 30.09.2004 - 176 Seiten Marxist cultural theory underlies much teaching and research in university departments of literature and has played a crucial role in the development of recent theoretical work. Feminism, New Historicism, cultural materialism, postcolonial theory, and queer theory all draw upon ideas about cultural production which can be traced to Marx, and significantly each also has a special relation with Renaissance literary studies. This book explores the past and continuing influence of Marx's ideas in work on Shakespeare. Marx's ideas about cultural production and its relation to economic production are clearly explained, together with the standard terminology and concepts such as base/superstructure, ideology, commodity fetishism, alienation, and reification. The influence of Marx's ideas on the theory and practice of Shakespeare criticism and performance is traced from the Victorian age to the present day. The continuing importance of these ideas is illustrated via new Marxist readings of King Lear, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, The Comedy of Errors, All's Well that Ends Well, and The Winter's Tale. |
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... determination and liken them to a persistent dilemma in the physical sciences concerning genetic and environmental determin- ation . It is widely but incorrectly believed in social sciences that neo- Darwinism deterministically ...
... determination and liken them to a persistent dilemma in the physical sciences concerning genetic and environmental determin- ation . It is widely but incorrectly believed in social sciences that neo- Darwinism deterministically ...
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... determine ' and what aspects of life are one's ' social being ' ? Most sympathetic readers seek ways to understand the superstructure or the individual consciousness as generally shaped but not entirely constrained by economics . After ...
... determine ' and what aspects of life are one's ' social being ' ? Most sympathetic readers seek ways to understand the superstructure or the individual consciousness as generally shaped but not entirely constrained by economics . After ...
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... mechanistic views of human creativity whether coming from the political left or right . My conviction is that Marx's view of determination is optimistic and liberating and that it has been Production and the World of Ideas II.
... mechanistic views of human creativity whether coming from the political left or right . My conviction is that Marx's view of determination is optimistic and liberating and that it has been Production and the World of Ideas II.
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Gabriel Egan. determination is optimistic and liberating and that it has been misap- plied ( where it has not simply been misunderstood ) , with effects quite contrary to Marx's intentions . To see how that has happened requires first an ...
Gabriel Egan. determination is optimistic and liberating and that it has been misap- plied ( where it has not simply been misunderstood ) , with effects quite contrary to Marx's intentions . To see how that has happened requires first an ...
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Inhalt
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2 Marxs Influence on Shakespeare Studies to 1968 | 46 |
3 Marxs Influence on Shakespeare Studies since 1968 | 69 |
4 Shakespeare and Marx Today | 98 |
Marx and Genetics | 138 |
Further Reading | 150 |
Works Cited | 153 |
Index | 163 |
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action actor Alcibiades alienation Althusser Antipholus Antonio argued assertion audience Aumerle Bassanio become behaviour Bolingbroke bond bourgeois bourgeoisie Brecht called capitalism capitalist characters claim commodity concern consciousness criticism Cultural Materialism Derrida dialectic Dollimore dramatic ecocriticism economic Elizabethan existence feel feudalism forces genes genetic Georg Lukács Greenblatt Hamlet Henry Historicism human idealism ideas ideology individual insists kind King Lear labour labouring power language Levine Liar Paradox linguistics literary studies live Lukács Marx and Engels Marx's Marxist means meme Merchant of Venice nature objects Oxford particular performance philosophical play play's political principle production progress reality reification rejection relations relationship Renaissance Richard Richard II Russian Formalists Saussure Scott Cutler sense Shakespeare Shakespeare studies Shaw Shershow Shylock signified social structure superstructure theatre theory things thinking thought Tillyard Timon of Athens tion Williams word workers World Picture writing
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Seite 10 - The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society — the real foundation, on which rise legal and political superstructures and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness.
Seite 48 - Is it possible Disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain if you come in her presence.
Seite 29 - A commodity is therefore a mysterious thing, simply because in it the social character of men's labour appears to them as an objective character stamped upon the product of that labour...
Seite 120 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not ' seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of...
Seite 10 - The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness.
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