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Analyzing a Play with New Historical/Cultural Criticism

INSTRUCTIONS

After reading about this week’s critical theory 

 downloadand the three plays, select one play to analyze and one or more questions from the “Cultural criticism and literature” section of chapter to respond to:

1. 1. What kinds of behavior, what models of practice, does this work seem to enforce?
   2. Why might readers at a particular time and place find this work compelling?
   3. Are there differences between my values and the values implicit in the work I am reading?
   4. Upon what social understandings does the work depend?
   5. Whose freedom of thought or movement might be constrained implicitly or explicitly by this work?
   6. What are the larger social structures with which these particular acts of praise or blame that is, the text’s apparent ethical orientation might be connected? (Greenblatt qtd. in Tyson 297)