{"product_id":"william-shakespeare-isbn-9780631145547","title":"William Shakespeare","description":"This is a bold and original reinterpretation of almost all of Shakespeare's major plays, in the light of the Marxist, feminist and semiotic ideas of our own time. Through a set of tenaciously detailed readings, the book illuminates a number of persistent problems or conflicts in Shakespearean drama - in particular a contradiction between words and things, body and language, which is also explored in terms of law, sexuality and Nature. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage and desire, Terry Eagleton argues, are seen by Shakespeare as a kind of 'surplus' over and above the body, stable and social roles and a fixed human nature. But the attitude of the plays to such a 'surplus' is profoundly ambivalent; if they admire it as the very source of human creativity, they also fear its anarchic, trangressive force. Underlying such ambiguities, the book convincingly shows, is a deeper ideological struggle, between feudalist traditionalism on the one hand, and the emergence of new forms of bourgeois individualism on the other. This book revels how, in the light of our own contemporary theories of language, sexuality and society, we can understand the issues present in Shakespeare's drama which previously have remained obscure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Language: \u003ci\u003eMacbeth, Richard II, Henry IV\u003c\/i\u003e 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Desire: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Law: The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Cressida\u003c\/i\u003e 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 ‘Nothing’: Othello, Hamlet, Coriolanus 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Value: King Lear, Timon of Athens, \u003ci\u003eAntony\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCleopatra\u003c\/i\u003e 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Nature: As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 109\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Brilliant little book ... dazzling and exhilarating ... Eagleton is alive to the excitement and originality of a great playwright.\" \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"When you read this book you feel Eagleton's pleasure in reading Shakespeare's works. He deals with the plays in chapters which cut across the well-used categories and an excitement is created by the unexpectedness of the directions which he takes.\" \u003ci\u003eMarxism Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Always provocative, Mr. Eagleton does in print what directors regularly do on stage: change the century, stitch up new costumes, but preserve the story line and language.\" \u003ci\u003eHerbert Mitgang, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. His works include \u003ci\u003eThe Ideology of the Aesthetic\u003c\/i\u003e (1990),\u003ci\u003e Literacy Theory: An Introduction \u003c\/i\u003e(1983), Walter Benjamin (1981) and Marxism and Literacy Criticism (1976). This is a bold and original reinterpretation of almost all of Shakespeare's major plays, in the light of the Marxist, feminist and semiotic ideas of our own time. Through a set of tenaciously detailed readings, the book illuminates a number of persistent problems or conflicts in Shakespearean drama - in particular a contradiction between words and things, body and language, which is also explored in terms of law, sexuality and Nature.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990493413605,"sku":"NP9780631145547","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631145547.jpg?v=1761788048","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/william-shakespeare-isbn-9780631145547","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}