Product Description: Margot Heinemann, who died in 1992, was a great scholar of the Renaissance period. As a Marxist, she inspired many with her commitment to the idea that cultural activity was central to the continuing struggle against oppression. These writers consider cultural theory in her honour...read more

Product Description: Margot Heinemann, who died in 1992, was a great scholar of the Renaissance period. As a Marxist, she inspired many with her commitment to the idea that cultural activity was central to the continuing struggle against oppression. These writers consider cultural theory in her honour...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work deals with the social fabric of Elizabethan-Jacobean life upon which Shakespeare drew for his plays. Using the Arden edition of the plays for quotation purposes, the author emphasizes the synthesis in the plays of images of reality and works of art.

Product Description: The "Left Review" (1934-9) was the first avowedly Marxist journal of cultural studies in the English language. This anthology highlights the importance of new developments in Marxist critical theory of the time and shows how culture was seen as an active, liberating force for change...read more