Richard Halpern
Shakespeare among the Moderns
- ISBN 13:
- 9780801484186
- author:
- Richard Halpern
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1997
- Pages:
- 304
- Dimensions:
- 23.5 x 15.5 x 1.8 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Drama, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Shakespeare Among the Moderns by Richard Halpern explores how modernist writers and critics reinterpreted Shakespeare's plays in the 20th century. This lively and provocative book examines the influence of high modernists such as T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and James Joyce on critical reception. Halpern discusses topics like imperialism, mass culture, and anti-Semitism, and considers figures from Orson Welles to Arnold Schwarzenegger alongside Shakespeare critics. He argues that modernist themes continue to shape postmodern schools of criticism, and constructs new readings of four Shakespeare plays using modernist approaches. By juxtaposing historical distance with a mapping onto the present, Halpern reveals the enduring contribution of modernism to our understanding of Shakespeare's works.
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