Alternative Shakespeares, published in 1985, shook up the world of Shakespearean studies, demythologising Shakespeare and applying new theories to the study of his work. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 investigates Shakespearean criticism over a decade later, introducing new debates and new theorists into the frame.
Both established scholars and new names appear here, providing a broad cross-section of contemporary Shakespearean studies, including psychoanalysis, sexual and gender politics, race and new historicism.
Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 represents the forefront of contemporary Shakespearean studies. This urgently-needed addition to a classic work of literary criticism is one which teachers and scholars will welcome.
1. Introduction Terence Hawkes 2. After the new historicism Steven Mullaney 3. Cleopatra's seduction Catherine Belsey 4. Imprints: Shakespeare, Guttenburg and Descartes Margreta de Grazia 5. Locating the sexual subject Bruce R. Smith 6. How to read 'The Merchant of Venice' without being heterosexist Alan Sinfield 7. 'In what chapter of his bosom?': reading Shakespeare's bodies Keir Elam 8. Shakespeare and cultural difference Ania Loomba 9. 'Othello was a white man': properties of race on Shakespeare's stage Dympna Callaghan 10. Watching Hamlet watching: Lacan, Shakespeare and the mirror/stage Philip Armstrong 11. Afterword: the next generation John Drakakis Notes, Bibliography, Index.
