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Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory

Karen Raber author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:19th Mar '20

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This book examines the influence of posthumanist theory on interpretations of Shakespeare’s texts and culture, and the reciprocal influence of Shakespeare on posthumanist theory.

Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies to the assumption that the category “human” is real, stable, or worthy of privileging in discussions of the playwright’s work. Drawing on a variety of methodologies – cognitive theory, systems theory, animal studies, ecostudies, the new materialisms – the volume investigates the world of Shakespeare’s plays and poems in order to represent more thoroughly its variety, its ethics of inclusion, and its resistance to human triumphalism and exceptionalism.

Karen Raber, a leading scholar in the field, clearly and cogently guides the reader through complex theoretical terrain, providing fresh, exciting readings of plays including Othello, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida and Henry IV Part 1.

An excellent orientation to this theory and practice that will interest multiple audiences. In no-nonsense prose, Raber
sets out the intellectual genealogy of posthumanism…

* Studies in English Literature 1500-19

ISBN: 9781474234443

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 240g

216 pages