Power on Display : The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres

by Leonard Tennenhouse

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10 0415353157

ISBN-13 9780415353151

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 23rd, 2004

Print length 218 Pages

Weight 376 grams

Dimensions 14.70 x 22.50 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Shakespeare studies & criticism

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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.

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.

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