Eight Tragedies of ShakespeareBloomsbury Publishing, 15 feb. 2016 - 309 sidor 'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in “a more realistic light”.' Times Literary Supplement The seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic drama across Western Europe. And in the plays of William Shakespeare, this form of drama found its greatest exponent. These Tragedies, Kiernan argues, represented the artistic expression of a new social and political consciousness which permeated every aspect of life in this period. In this book, Kiernan sets out to rescue the Tragedies from the reductionist interpretations of mainstream literary criticism, by uncovering the wider historical context which shaped Shakespeare's writings. Opening with an overview of contemporary England, the development of the theatre, and a portrait of Shakespeare as a writer, Kiernan goes on to provide an in-depth analysis of eight of his Tragedies – from Julius Caesar to Coriolanus – drawing out their contrasts and recurring themes, and exploring their attitudes to monarchy, war, religion, philosophy, and changing relations between men and women. Featuring a new introduction by Terry Eagleton, this is an invaluable resource for those looking for a new perspective on Shakespeare's writings. |
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... English subjects , the question of social class . Kiernan begins by noting the complex relations between the extraordinary flourishing of tragedy in Elizabethan and Jacobean England and the fact that it took place in an era of profound ...
... English subjects , the question of social class . Kiernan begins by noting the complex relations between the extraordinary flourishing of tragedy in Elizabethan and Jacobean England and the fact that it took place in an era of profound ...
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... English Histories , two contrasting but converging series written mostly during the same years . In this second part it might have been desirable to combine the tragedies with the ' problem plays ' , belonging to the same period ( and ...
... English Histories , two contrasting but converging series written mostly during the same years . In this second part it might have been desirable to combine the tragedies with the ' problem plays ' , belonging to the same period ( and ...
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... English serving as lingua franca . Shakespeare was already an idol , as Fanny Burney heard George III humorously complain ( Diary , 19 Dec , 1875 ) ; Johnson had readers who censured him for venturing to find any faults in the bard . At ...
... English serving as lingua franca . Shakespeare was already an idol , as Fanny Burney heard George III humorously complain ( Diary , 19 Dec , 1875 ) ; Johnson had readers who censured him for venturing to find any faults in the bard . At ...
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... English and European mind . Marxian socialism , or communism ( the names were for long interchange- able ) , was descended from early nineteenth - century German philosophy , chiefly Hegelian , by way of a critique of religion moving ...
... English and European mind . Marxian socialism , or communism ( the names were for long interchange- able ) , was descended from early nineteenth - century German philosophy , chiefly Hegelian , by way of a critique of religion moving ...
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... English education . British academics concerned with German or Italian literature remained quite indifferent to any historical setting . The First World War shook things up somewhat ; and in the field of drama , the study of environment ...
... English education . British academics concerned with German or Italian literature remained quite indifferent to any historical setting . The First World War shook things up somewhat ; and in the field of drama , the study of environment ...
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Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study Victor Gordon Kiernan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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