William Shakespeare

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by Terry Eagleton and William Shakespeare

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published November 1990, 114 pages, paper

ISBN 0631145540

This is a bold and original reinterpretation of almost all Shakespeare's major plays, in the light of the Marxist, feminist and semiotic ideas of our own time. Through a set of tenaciously detailed readings, the book illuminates a number of persistent problems or conflicts in Shakespearean drama--in particular a contradiction between words and things, body and language, which is also explored in terms of law, sexuality and Nature.