Conclusion
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Ben Haworth
Abstract
The Conclusion summarises how the book has worked to define the indefinable, to explore Shakespeare’s stable interest in unstable spaces that challenge and subvert conventional power structures. In so doing, the study has revealed ways in which the tides of new critical movements have often returned the same flotsam to the same shores. Returning to the work of the new historicists and cultural materialists is not an exercise in picking at the already clean bones of Shakespeare’s plays, but rather an exercise in fleshing out these bones by considering how liminality had the potential to complicate previously held ideas of how the playwright engaged with power. In doing so, the book has sought to do more than simply dust off or reignite theoretical approaches to Shakespeare that went out of circulation or fashion shortly after their inception in the 1980s.
Abstract
The Conclusion summarises how the book has worked to define the indefinable, to explore Shakespeare’s stable interest in unstable spaces that challenge and subvert conventional power structures. In so doing, the study has revealed ways in which the tides of new critical movements have often returned the same flotsam to the same shores. Returning to the work of the new historicists and cultural materialists is not an exercise in picking at the already clean bones of Shakespeare’s plays, but rather an exercise in fleshing out these bones by considering how liminality had the potential to complicate previously held ideas of how the playwright engaged with power. In doing so, the book has sought to do more than simply dust off or reignite theoretical approaches to Shakespeare that went out of circulation or fashion shortly after their inception in the 1980s.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vi
- Acknowledgements vii
- Prologue viii
- 1 In search of the liminal 1
- 2 Between ocean and land 36
- 3 Subversive sylvan settings 80
- 4 Corrupted Eden 120
- 5 Theatres of war 163
- Conclusion 204
- Bibliography 208
- Index 217
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vi
- Acknowledgements vii
- Prologue viii
- 1 In search of the liminal 1
- 2 Between ocean and land 36
- 3 Subversive sylvan settings 80
- 4 Corrupted Eden 120
- 5 Theatres of war 163
- Conclusion 204
- Bibliography 208
- Index 217
