Shakespeare Left and Right

Ivo Kamps

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Ideology and Its Discontents; Part 1: Critique and/or Ideology; 2. Ideological Criticism and Pluralism 3. The Myth of Neutrality, Again? 4. Where Does Ideology Hang Out? 5. MLA Response to Levin, Greene, and Bristol 6. Reply to Michael Bristol and Gayle Greene 7. Straw Women and Whipping Girls: The (Sexual) Politics of Critical Self-Fashioning 8. Against "Ideology" 9. Ordinary People and Academic Critics: A Response to Richard Levin 10. Commentary: "You’ve Got a Lot of Nerve"; Part 2: Ideology and Critical Practice; 11. Character and Ideology in Shakespeare 12. Violence and Gender Ideology in Coriolanus and Macbeth 13: "A Woman’s War": A Feminist Reading of Richard II 14. Julius Caesar, Allan Bloom, and the Value of Pedagogical Pluralism 15. Transfer of Title in Love’s Labor’s Lost: Language, Individualism, Gender 16. On the Continuity of the Henriad: A Critique of Some Literary and Theatrical Approaches; 17. "The King Hath Many Marching in His Coats" or, What Did You Do During the War, Daddy? 18. A Tale of Two Branaghs: Henry V, Ideology, and the Mekong Agincourt 19. Commentary: "In the Destructive Element Immersed" 20. Afterword: Poetics from the Barrel of a Gun?; Bibliography; Index; Contributors