In these essays, collected here for the first time, renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction,

Finally, these assumptions lead to the corollary that such hierarchies are natural and immutable and not fashioned by critics.

Marxist cultural theory underlies much teaching and research in university departments of literature and has played a crucial role in the development of recent

The theoretical ferment which has affected literary studies over the last decade has called into question traditional ways of thinking about, classifying and in

In this new monograph, Claire Hansen demonstrates how Shakespeare can be understood as a complex system, and how complexity theory can provide compelling and or