Searching Shakespeare: Studies in Culture and AuthorityUniversity of Toronto Press, 1 Jan 2003 - 195 halaman 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 argues, consistently portray the clash between the passionate search for individuality and the quest for social harmony as irresolvable. The playwright's uncanny ability to carry the reader to the edge of imaginary experience - far from the literal world that is made visible by the text - offers an entry into the subtextual and ironic underside of the dramas. It is in this dark and strange world of slavery, mutilation, sexual jealousy, and suborned murder that the implicit political biases of the plays are most evident and it is here, too, that a modern political analysis reveals why Shakespeare portrayed the quest for individuation and self-expression as necessarily ending in tragedy. |
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... Caliban and Ariel 41 4 The Scapegoat Mechanism : Shylock and Caliban 61 PART II 83 5 The Self - Representations of Othello 85 6 King Lear and Memory 103 7 The Past of Macbeth 123 PART III 139 8 Messengers of Death : The Figure of the ...
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Othello | 3 |
The SelfRepresentations of Othello | 85 |
King Lear and Memory | 103 |
The Figure of the Hit Man | 141 |
Notes | 179 |
Works Cited | 187 |