Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres

by Leonard Tennenhouse

Overview

First published in 1986.

'Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive form may function as a screen for another above all to the political entailment of genre.'Stephen Greenblatt.
What is the relation between literary and political power? How do the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice relate to one another? Power on Display considers Shakespeare's progression from romantic comedies and history plays to tragedy and romance in the light of the general process of cultural change in the period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135032692
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	813 KB

About the Author

Leonard Tennenhouse

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 STAGING CARNIVAL; Chapter 2 RITUALS OF STATE; Chapter 3 THE THEATER OF PUNISHMENT; Chapter 4 FAMILY RITES; NOTES; Index;