Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves

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University of California Press, 18 de out. de 1991 - 228 páginas
Participants in the current debate about the literary canon generally separate the established literary order—of which Shakespeare is the most visible icon—from the emergent minority literatures. In this challenging study, Peter Erickson insists on bringing the two realms together. He asks: what impact does a revision of the literary canon have on Shakespeare's status?

Part One of his book is about Shakespeare on women. In analyses of several Shakespearean works, Erickson discusses Shakespeare's ambivalence about women as a reflection of male anxiety about the cultural authority of Queen Elizabeth. Part Two is about (contemporary) women on Shakespeare. Erickson discusses Adrienne Rich's revision of the very concept of canon and discusses how several African-American women writers (in particular Maya Angelou and Gloria Naylor) have reflected on the ambivalent status of Shakespeare in their worlds.

Erickson here offers a model for multicultural literary criticism and a new conceptual framework with which to discuss issues of identity politics. Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves makes an important contribution to the national debate about educational policy in the humanities.
 

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SHAKESPEARES REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN
21
Female Rule Patriarchal Ideology
23
Refracted Images of Queen Elizabeth in Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece
31
The Political Effects of Gender and Class in Alls Well That Ends Well
57
Gender Genre and Nation in Hamlet
74
WOMEN WRITERS REPRESENTATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE
93
Some Versions of Tradition
95
Shakespeare Angelou Cheney The Administration of the Humanities in the ReaganBush Era
111
Shakespeares Changing Status in the Novels of Gloria Naylor
124
Adrienne Richs ReVision of Shakespeare
146
Identity Politics Multicultural Society
167
Notes
177
Index
223
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Peter Erickson is the author of Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare's Drama (California, 1985) and co-editor with Coppélia Kahn of Shakespeare's "Rough Magic": Renaissance Essays in Honor of C. L. Barber (1985). He is currently writing the volume on the comedies for Routledge's series, Feminist Readings of Shakespeare.

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