Shakespeare's Universal Wolf Postmodernist Studies in Early Modern Reification |
|
| Author:
| Grady, Hugh |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-813004-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1996 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
|
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $336.00AUD $305.45 |
Book Description:
|
Shakespeare's Universal Wolf explores Shakespeare's representation and critique in four central plays - Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear and As You Like It, - of the uncontrollable destructiveness of emerging `reified' systems of modernity - mercantile capitalism, Machiavellian power, and value-free rationality - operating under their own autonomous logic, beyond the reach of the society which had created them.
Shakespeare's Universal Wolf explores Shakespeare's representation and critique in four central plays - Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear and As You Like It, - of the uncontrollable destructiveness of emerging `reified' systems of modernity - mercantile capitalism, Machiavellian power, and value-free rationality - operating under their own autonomous logic, beyond the reach of the society which had created them.