This title provides sudents and academics with a selection of important essays by leading contemporary critics on Shakespeare's first Globe play. New historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic and Marxist readings of the tragedy have been chosen to highlight the urgency with which this drama of prophecy, interpretation and political crisis speaks to 21st-century concerns about democracy, the media and mass communication.
This title provides sudents and academics with a selection of important essays by leading contemporary critics on Shakespeare's first Globe play. New historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic and Marxist readings of the tragedy have been chosen to highlight the urgency with which this drama of prophecy, interpretation and political crisis speaks to 21st-century concerns about democracy, the media and mass communication.