Abstract
Those who approach Shakespeare from a Marxist perspective try to restore what in many critical accounts goes missing: an understanding of the plays within the social and historical processes in which they were written and acted. History of ideas, study of genre and convention, various allegorical interpretations — all these set up historical contexts of a sort. But what Marxist critics claim to offer is an understanding of the conditions which determine the way works of art are made. Marx never assembled
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References and Further Reading
Barber, Charles, ‘The Winter’s Tale and Jacobean Society’, in Arnold Kettle (ed.), Shakespeare in a Changing World (London, 1964) .
Craig, David (ed.), Marxists on Literature: An Anthology (Harmondsworth, 1975 ).
Eagleton, Terry, Marxism and Literary Criticism (London, 1976).
Kettle, Arnold (ed.), Shakespeare in a Changing World (London, 1964 ).
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Overton, B. (1989). Marxism. In: The Winter’s Tale. The Critics Debate. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20036-8_8
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