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Article: The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations.(Review) (book reviews)
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- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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By Barbara Hodgdon. New Cultural Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pp. xx + 306. Pbk [pounds]17.95.
This collection offers four new and two reprinted pieces of current cultural criticism. Barbara Hodgdon explores 'Shakespeare', from text, Elizabethan history, the theatre, to the movies and television, - and how performance and uses of Shakespeare's reputation express tensions in high and mass culture and as cultural icons. In accord with current American academic preoccupations with gender, class and race, her book is largely, and unapologetically, about America now. The sum is both greater, and less, than its parts, for in the rich ...