Shakespearean Subversions: The Trickster and the Play-Text

by Richard Hillman

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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