Shakespeare in Theory : The Postmodern Academy and the Early Modern Theater

Shakespeare in Theory: The Postmodern Academy and the Early Modern Theater offers a provocative, highly original premise: that present-day literary criticism and theory have been shaped by the same institutional forces that shaped the theater of Shakespeare's day. Stephen Bretzius argues that Shakespeare's poetry and drama have been central to the development of postwar literary and cultural criticism, not just because his works validate these various critical approaches, but because the approaches variously replay his works, from the theater of the Renaissance to the contemporary American university. Where early modern theater once usurped the university, the postmodern university now refashions the theater, recasting in a theoretical register the same disappearing subjects, ideological contradictions, and imperialist illusions that it uncovers in Shakespeare.

Shakespeare in Theory : The Postmodern Academy and the Early Modern Theater,Stephen Bretzius,University of Michigan Press,0472108530,1564-1616,20th century,Criticism and interpretation,Drama,Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600,English drama,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,History,History and criticism,Literary Criticism,Plays / Drama,Postmodernism (Literature),Shakespeare,Shakespeare, William,,Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616,Study and teaching (Higher),Theory, etc,United States,Shakespeare, William,Social Science / Popular Culture,Study and teaching

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