Shakespeare's Universal Wolf Postmodernist Studies in Early Modern Reification |
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Author:
| Grady, Hugh |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-813004-8 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1996 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $100.00 |
Book Description:
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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.