Looking for an Argument: Critical Encounters with the New Approaches to the Criticism of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

by Richard Louis Levin

This book collects a number of Richard Levin's essays, beginning with his well-known PMLA article of 1988 on Feminist Thematics and Shakespearean Tragedy and continuing through the 1990s, that examine and evaluate some of the most important aspects of the new critical approaches to the interpretations of the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries- principally the New Historicism, feminism, and revisionist versions of Marxism and Freudianism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 083863964X
• ISBN13: 9780838639641
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.