Searching Shakespeare: Studies in Culture and Authority

by Derek Cohen

Original in topic and approach, Searching Shakespeare presents a political-historical exploration of Shakespeare's drama, examining the plays in the context of current ideological concerns - history, memory, marginality, and nationalism. Derek Cohen predicates his argument on the supposition that the individual, as much as the encompassing state, is subject to the shaping forces and machinery of the ideological surround. Shakespeare's plays, Cohen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802087787
• ISBN13: 9780802087782
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher