Title Rematerializing Shakespeare : authority and representation on the early modern English stage / edited by Bryan Reynolds & William N. West

Published Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 230 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Shakespearean Emergences: Back from Materialisms to Transversalisms and Beyond; Part I The Form and Pressure of the Time: Popular and Unpopular Traditions; Part II What's the Matter? Revisions and Reversions in Pen and Voice; Part III Creatures Sitting at a Play: The Authority and Representation of Audiences; Index Summary To "rematerialize" in the sense of Rematerializing Shakespeare is not to recover a lost material infrastructure, as Marx spoke of, nor is it to restore to some material existence its priority over the imaginary. This anthology of work by three generations of some of the most highly-regarded British and American Shakespeare scholars does not offer a single theoretical stance on any of the forms of critical materialism (Marxism, cultural materialism, new historicism, transversal poetics, gender studies or performance criticism), but rather demonstrates that the materiality of Shakespeare is multidimensional and consists of the imagination, the intended, and the desired. Nothing returns in this rematerialization, unless it is a return in the sense of the repressed, which, when it comes back, comes back as something else. The essays assembled here constitute an emergent activity of Shakespeare studies that focuses not just on the past or present, but also on the critical future. An all-star line-up of contributors includes Kate McLuskie, Terence Hawkes, Catherine Belsey and Doug Bruster Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- England SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast Subject Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century Theater audiences in literature. Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800. Shakespeare studies & criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare. DRAMA -- Shakespeare. Literature. Theater Theater audiences in literature England Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Reynolds, Bryan (Bryan Randolph), editor. West, William N., editor. ISBN 9780230505032 0230505031

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