This is a bold and original reinterpretation of almost all of
Shakespeare's major plays, in the light of the Marxist, feminist
and semiotic ideas of our own time. Through a set of tenaciously
detailed readings, the book illuminates a number of persistent
problems or conflicts in Shakespearean drama - in particular a
contradiction between words and things, body and language, which is
also explored in terms of law, sexuality and Nature.
Language and desire, Terry Eagleton argues, are seen by
Shakespeare as a kind of 'surplus' over and above the body, stable
and social roles and a fixed human nature. But the attitude of the
plays to such a 'surplus' is profoundly ambivalent; if they admire
it as the very source of human creativity, they also fear its
anarchic, trangressive force. Underlying such ambiguities, the book
convincingly shows, is a deeper ideological struggle, between
feudalist traditionalism on the one hand, and the emergence of new
forms of bourgeois individualism on the other. This book revels
how, in the light of our own contemporary theories of language,
sexuality and society, we can understand the issues present in
Shakespeare's drama which previously have remained obscure.
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