Measure for measure
By: edited by Nigel Wood ; [contributors, Peter Corbin ... et al.].
Contributors: Wood, Nigel, 1953-; Corbin, Peter.
Series: Theory in practice series
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Buckingham; Bristol, PA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Brothers and sisters in literature.; Chastity in literature.; Comedy.
Description: This volume approaches the play from four declared positions within literary criticism (performance study; new historicist feminism; reader response and Foucaultian). It illustrates how complex critical theories might affect critical practice in detail, and illuminates both Measure for Measure and the theories themselves. The spread of perspectives has been carefully chosen with modern cultural and critical concerns in mind.

A select bibliography and essay introductions by the volume editor help those new to theory to assimilate and apply it in reading or seeing the play.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Nigel Wood; title: Performing Measure for measure / Peter Corbin; title: Self-preservation in the Shakespearean system: gender, power and the new history / Amanda Piesse; title: Reading as a feminist / Nicholas Radel; title: Prince of Darkness: Foucault's Shakespeare / Richard Wilson.