
Kenneth Parker gives a historical and critical exposition of commentaries of the play. These are traced back to firmly held assumptions, about theories of literary production and consumption as well as political relations, not yet wholly shed in the present. Dominant traditions...

A comprehensive demolition of dominant views of Shakespeare's play, arguing instead for a radical revisioning located in postcolonial and feminist theories, to claim this play as the text for our times. A new edition of Kenneth Parker's radical re-reading of Shakespeare's Antony...