Books by Jonathan Dollimore

A wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity, linking writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as St. Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig.

Radical Tragedy is a landmark study of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and a classic of cultural materialist thought. The reissued third edition features a candid and inspiring new Preface by the author in which he explains his reasons for excluding Othello from his original discussion. The main text has also now been corrected.

The frustrated relationship between death and desire has fixated the Western imagination. Jonathan Dollimore here provides nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley and Holderlin with Foucault. He weaves a thread through each to tell the story of the making of the modern individual.