Acknowledgements
Introduction: Shakespeare and Theory
I. Language and Structure
1: Formalism: William Empson, Cleanth Brooks, Mikhail Bakhtin
2: Structuralism: Roland Barthes, Roman Jakobson, René Girard
3: Deconstruction:J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man, Jacques
Derrida
4: 4. Rhizome and Actor Network Theory: Gilles Deleuze, Michel
Serres, Bruno Latour
II. Desire and Identity
5: Freudian Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, Melanie
Klein
6: Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Slavoj
%Zi%zek
7: Feminism: Virginia Woolf, Hélène Cixous, Elaine Showalter
8: Queer Theory: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jonathan Dollimore, Lee
Edelman
III. Culture and Society
9: Marxism: Karl Marx, Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht
10: Poststructuralist Marxisms: Terry Eagleton, Jacques Derrida,
Fredric Jameson
11: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism: Michel Foucault,
Stephen Greenblatt, Alan Sinfield
12: Postcolonial Theory: Wole Soyinka, Edward Said, Sara Ahmed
Further Reading
Works Cited
Jonathan Gil Harris is Professor of English at George Washington
University. He is the author of Foreign Bodies and the Body
Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England
(Cambridge, 1998), Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism and Disease
in Shakespeare's England (U Penn P, 2004), and Untimely Matter in
the Time of Shakespeare (U Penn P 2008). He is also the editor of
Staged Properties in Early Modern English
Drama (co-edited with Natasha Koarda, Cambridge 2002) and Thomas
Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday (New Mermaids, 2008). Professor
Harris serves as associate editor of Shakespeare Quarterly.
Gil Harris provides an essential, concise, reference work for
Shakespearian libraries.
*Chris Butler, Years Work in English Studies*
This book serves a contemporary need by providing accessible
introductions to theory, while simultaneously whetting the appetite
for more theoretically inflected discussions of Shakespeare
*Graham Holderness, Times Literary Supplement*
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