Receptive to influences of such diverse theorists as Derrida, Jameson, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan and Althusser, materialist Shakespeare criticism has

Cultural materialism is one of the most important and one of the most provocative theories to have emerged in the last thirty years. Combining close attention t

A complete critical introduction to New Historicist and Cultural Materialist approaches that have dominated contemporary Shakespeare theory, as well as alternat

Continues Bradshaw's earlier critical work on Shakespeare by considering his perspectivism and the intricacies and complexity of a play's dramatic thinking, usi