Shakespeare's Universal Wolf explores Shakespeare's representation and critique in four central plays - Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear and As You Like It, - of the uncontrollable destructiveness of emerging `reified' systems of modernity - mercantile capitalism, Machiavellian power, and value-free rationality - operating under their own autonomous logic,

Books about Shakespeare's Universal Wolf

Books about Shakespeare's Universal Wolf

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Social Justice is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and issues of social justice and arts activism by an international team of leading scholars, directors, arts activists, and educators. Across four sections it explores the relevance and responsibility of art to

The four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad and the slightly later Hamlet brilliantly explore interconnections between political power and interior subjectivity as productions of the newly emerging constellation we call modernity. Hugh Grady argues that for Shakespeare subjectivity was a critical, negative mode of resistance to power--not, as many recent critics