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| Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hugh Grady |
| ISBN: | 019813004X 9780198130048 |
| OCLC Number: | 34966033 |
| Description: | viii, 241 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Hugh Grady. |
Abstract:
Shakespeare was neither a Royalist defender of order and hierarchy nor a consistently radical champion of social equality, but rather simultaneously radical and conservative as a critic of emerging forms of modernity. Hugh Grady argues that Shakespeare's social criticism in fact often parallels that of critics of modernity from our own Postmodernist era. Thus the broad analysis of modernity produced by Marx, Horkheimer and Adorno, Foucault, and others can serve to illuminate Shakespeare's own depiction of an emerging modernity - a depiction epitomized by the image in Troilus and Cressida of 'an universal wolf' of appetite, power, and will. The readings of Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, and As You Like It in Shakespeare's Universal Wolf demonstrate Shakespeare's keen interest in what twentieth-century theory has called 'reification' - a term which designates social systems created by human societies but which confront those societies as operating beyond human control, according to an autonomous 'systems' logic - in nascent mercantile capitalism, in power-oriented Machiavellian politics, and in the scientistic, value-free rationality which Horkheimer and Adorno call 'instrumental reason'.
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- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Political and social views.
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century.
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- Troilus and Cressida.
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- As you like it.
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- King Lear.
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- Othello.
- Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
- Civilization, Modern, in literature.
- Social problems in literature.
- Postmodernism (Literature)
- Historical materialism.
- Maatschappijkritiek.
- Postmodernisme.
- Shakespeare, William
- Gesellschaft
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- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616.
- English drama
