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When critical theory met literary studies in the 1970s and 80s some of themost radical and exciting theoretical work took as its subject the longmythologized quasisacred figure of Shakespeare. Alternative Shakespeares isa unique collection of essays by founding figures in this movement to remakeShakespeare studies.Drawing upon revolutionary work in the semiotics of drama poststructuralismpsychoanalysis feminism and Marxism each essay challenges the Shakespearemyth and the assumptions underlying traditional modes of criticism. Exploringsuch fundamental issues as text meaning and subjectivity the volume arguesthat there can be no unified subject Shakespeare and that we must ratherdefine and contest a series of alternative Shakespeares according to our ownperspectives.A new afterword by Robert Weimann outlines the extraordinary impact of thisvolume upon academic Shakespeare studies. However the Shakespeare mythcontinues to thrive not only in Stratford but in our schools making theseessays as relevant and as powerful as they were upon publication. With anauthor list that reads like a whos who of modern Shakespeare studiesAlternative Shakespeares simply must be read. «
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