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Shakespeare, William

Additional Reading > Critical studies > New Historicism, cultural materialism, Marxist criticism, and political theatre
Jonathan Dollimore, Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, 2nd ed. (1989); Terence Eagleton, Shakespeare and Society (1967), and William Shakespeare (1986); Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning (1980), and Hamlet in Purgatory (2001); Jean E. Howard, The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994); Jan Kott, Shakespeare Our Contemporary, 2nd ed. (1967, reprinted 1988; originally published in Polish, 1961); Leah Marcus, Puzzling Shakespeare: Local Reading and Its Discontents (1988); Steven Mullaney, The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England (1988); Stephen Orgel, The Illusion of Power: Political Theater in the English Renaissance (1975, reissued 1991); Annabel Patterson, Shakespeare and the Popular Voice (1989); Alan Sinfield, Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading (1992); and Robert Weimann, Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater (1978, reissued 1987; originally published in German, 1967).

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