This book traces some intriguing manifestations of trickery and subversion across the entire Shakespearean canon introducing some radically unconventional interpretations of specific texts. By isolating a principle of subversiveness that cuts across the standard categories, Hillman relates disparate aspects of the plays, and delineates broad patterns of development. In "Shakespearean Subversions" such obviously subversive character-types as the Clown, Fool and Machiavellian villain are incorporated into a broader concern with disruptive energy. The book begins by situating the central idea in relation to a number of theoretical positions, including New Historicism, Cultural Materialism and Bakhtin's concept of the carnivalesque.
- ISBN10 0415070201
- ISBN13 9780415070201
- Publish Date 30 April 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 November 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English