Signifying Nothing

by Malcolm Evans, Terry Eagleton

Evans, Malcolm

304 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1989

About the author

Professor Malcolm Evans is Professor of International Law at the University of Bristol.

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Evans's argument echoes what many Grade 12 English students suspect--that in the hands of the dominant order, Shakespeare is a tool of oppression. The critical approach Evans employs is from a Marxist angle, but there are also some interesting moments in which he deploys deconstruction theory in analyses of those passages that reflect a significant degree of textual instability. The plays Evans discusses most fully include As You Like It, Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest.

Acquired 1993
McGill Bookstore, Montreal, Quebec