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OverviewShakespeare was neither a Royalist defender of order and hierarchy nor a consistently radical champion of social equality, but rather simultaneously radical and conservative as a critic of emerging forms of modernity. Hugh Grady argues that Shakespeare's social criticism in fact often parallels that of critics of modernity from our own Postmodernist era, that the broad analysis of modernity produced by Marx, Horkheimer and Adorno, Foucault, and others can serve as a productive enabling representation and critique of the emerging modernity represented by the image in Troilus and Cressida of `an universal wolf' of appetite, power, and will. The readings of Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, and As You Like It in Shakespeare's Universal Wolf demonstrate Shakespeare's keen interest in what twentieth-century theory has called `reification' - a term which designates social systems created by human societies but which confronts those societies as operating beyond human control, according to an autonomous `systems' logic - in nascent mercantile capitalism, in power-oriented Machiavellian politics, and in the scientistic, value-free rationality which Horkheimer and Adorno call `instrumental reason'. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hugh Grady (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Beaver College, Pennsylvania)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Clarendon Press Dimensions: Width: 14.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.459kg ISBN: 9780198130048ISBN 10: 019813004 Pages: 252 Publication Date: 24 October 1996 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsGrady's exegesis of these master texts is nuanced, sensitive and very rewarding... --Studies in English Literature Grady's exegesis of these master texts is nuanced, sensitive and very rewarding... --Studies in English Literature<br> Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |