Title: Shakespeare in Theory
First published: 1997
Description: Bretzius explores a compelling interplay of theater and theory across a wide spectrum of contemporary critical movements. Individual chapters provide fascinating interpretations of various postwar critical schools and Shakespearean dramas, including the New Historicism and Hamlet, feminism and The Taming of the Shrew, pragmatism and Henry V.

Other approaches, including psychoanalysis, multiculturalism, deconstruction, and nuclear criticism are brought to bear on Love's Labour's Lost, Julius Caesar, and Othello. A final chapter on Shakespeare and the Beatles opens up the question of this theater-theory continuum onto the larger question of the postwar university's place in contemporary culture, providing a lively conclusion to an imaginative and thought-provoking volume.
Subjects: Theory, Study and teaching (Higher), English drama, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism (Literature), Study and teaching, History, Critique et interprétation, Toneel, Literary, Postmodernisme, Geschichte, Literaturkritik, Postmodernisme (Littérature), Histoire, Histoire et critique, Théorie, Théâtre anglais, Étude et enseignement (Supérieur), Theorieën, Study skills, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, criticism and interpretation, English drama, history and criticism, early modern and elizabethan, 1500-1600
Places: United States
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time periods: Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600, 20th century
LC classification: PR2970 .B74 1997