Late Shakespeare: A New World of Words

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Clarendon Press, 1997 - 298 sidor
Palfrey presents a new vision of character, metaphor, and politics in late Shakespeare. Closely analyzing Shakespeare's use of language and genre, he shows how the plays revamp theatrical decorums. The plays are not courtly, sober, and escapist, as their reputation suggests; rather, they are peculiarly sensitive to the turbulent, unfinished quality of Shakespeare's historical moment. In both court and wilderness, Shakespeare analyzes the violence of authority, the tensions in language, and the origin and prospects of both. Palfrey argues against a conventional sense of the plays' movement towards divinely sanctioned closure; mischief, irony, polysemy remain; romance's political problems are competitive, multiple, and tumescently unpredictable.

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Introduction I
11
ROMANCE IRONY AND HUMANISM 36
36
PERICLES AND THE IDEA OF THE HERO
57
BODY LANGUAGE AT COURT
79
COUNTRY MATTERS
113
MAGNETIC ISLAND AND ISLANDER IN
138
VIOLENCE AND FREEDOM
169
WOMEN AND ROMANCE
194
ENDINGS
230
BIBLIOGRAPHY
267
INDEX
291
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Om författaren (1997)

Simon Palfrey is Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne.

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