Catherine Belsey

Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory Catherine Belsey

Belsey takes traditional tales as a starting point to argue against the cultural materialists who claim Shakespeare's iconic status is no more than an accident of history. Each chapter shows how one of Shakespeare's best-known plays retells with a difference stories familiar both then and now.

Why Shakespeare?

Professor Belsey explains the views of recent theorists, including Jean-Francois Lyotard, Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek, in order to take issue with their accounts of what it is to be human.

Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory Catherine Belsey

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