Shakespeare in theory and practice / [electronic resource]
Belsey, Catherine,author.
In these essays  brought together here for the first time  world-renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-202) and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Introduction: practising with theory -- Psychoanalysis and early modern culture: Lacan with Augustine and Montaigne -- Love as trompe-l'oeil: taxonomies of desire in Venus and Adonis -- Tarquin dispossessed: expropriation and consent in The rape of Lucrece -- Antinomies of desire and the sonnets -- Peter Quince's ballad: memory, psychoanalysis, history and A midsummer night's dream -- The illusion of empire: Elizabethan expansionism and Shakespeare's second tetralogy -- Making histories then and now: Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V -- The case of Hamlet's conscience -- Iago the essayist.
In these essays  brought together here for the first time  world-renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare.