This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, a

Receptive to influences of such diverse theorists as Derrida, Jameson, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan and Althusser, materialist Shakespeare criticism has

The figure of the puritan has long been conceived as dour and repressive in character, an image which has been central to ways of reading sixteenth- and sevente

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