{"product_id":"william-shakespeare-rereading-literature","title":"William Shakespeare (Rereading Literature)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a bold and original reinterpretation of almost all of Shakespeares 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 Shakespeares drama which previously have remained obscure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945721032757,"sku":"ByrdShop_0631145540","price":36.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780631145547.jpg?v=1769907804","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/william-shakespeare-rereading-literature","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}