Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: List of contributors vii -- Acknowledgements x -- General editor's preface xi --1 Introduction: Marxism now, Shakespeare now 1 -- Jean E. Howard and Scott Cutler Shershow -- 2 "Well grubbed, old mole": Marx, Hamlet, and the (un)fixing of representation 16 -- Peter Stallybrass -- 3 An impure history of ghosts: Derrida, Marx, Shakespeare 31 -- Richard Halpern -- 4 Looking well to linens: women and cultural production in Othello and Shakespeare's England 53 -- Dympna Callaghan -- 5 "Judicious oeillades": supervising marital property in The Merry Wives of Windsor , 82 -- Jatasha Korda -- 6 The rape ofJesus: Aemilia Lanyer's Lucrece 104 -- Barbara E. Bowen -- 7 The undiscovered country: Shakespeare and mercantile geography 128 -- Walter Cohen --8 The management of mirth: Shakespeare via Bourdieu 159 -- Richard Wilson -- 9 Shakespeare's Globe? 178 -- Crystal Bartolovich -- 10 The Shakespeare film and the Americanization of culture 206 -- Denise Albanese -- 11 Measurefor Measure: Marxism before Marx 227 -- Kiernan Ryan -- 12 Shakespeare beyond Shakespeare 245 -- Scott Cutler Shershow -- Bibliography 265 -- Index 287.