Appropriating Shakespeare Contemporary Critical Quarrels Author:Brian Vickers During the last two decades, new critical schools of Shakespeare scholarship have emerged, each with its own ideology, each convinced that all other approaches are deficient. In this controversial book Brian Vickers surveys deconstructionist, feminist, new historicist, cultural materialist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and Christian interpretations ... more »of Shakespeare, and he argues that in attempting to appropriate Shakespeare for their own purposes, each of these schools distorts the text by omission and misrepresentation.« less