Power on Display: Politics of Shakespeare's Genres

by Leonard Tennenhouse

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First published in 1986.

'Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive form may function as a screen for another above all to the political entailment of genre.' Stephen Greenblatt.

What is the relation between literary and political power? How do the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice relate to one another? Power on Display considers Shakespeare's progression from romantic comedies and history plays to tragedy and romance in the light of the general process of cultural change in the period.
  • ISBN10 0416012817
  • ISBN13 9780416012811
  • Publish Date 2 October 1986
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 8 November 2009
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Imprint Routledge
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 250
  • Language English