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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... Rome's ' griefs ' ( JC I.iii.118 ) . No one but Falstaff would have thought of comparing the cold - blooded Lancaster to the hook - nosed fellow of Rome ' who came , saw , and conquered ( 2H.IV IV.iii.37 ) . While composing his first ...
... Rome's ' griefs ' ( JC I.iii.118 ) . No one but Falstaff would have thought of comparing the cold - blooded Lancaster to the hook - nosed fellow of Rome ' who came , saw , and conquered ( 2H.IV IV.iii.37 ) . While composing his first ...
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... Rome taking on new life . All Europeans invested Rome with a peculiar grandeur and dignity , congenial to tragedy . Republican Rome was to remain for very long the model of civic virtue ; veneration reached its climax with the French ...
... Rome taking on new life . All Europeans invested Rome with a peculiar grandeur and dignity , congenial to tragedy . Republican Rome was to remain for very long the model of civic virtue ; veneration reached its climax with the French ...
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... Rome especially civic and personal honour flourish side by side . They stand now not for self - glorifying adventure , but for a rational , though élitist , conception of duty . With honour comes ' nobility ' , it too in a higher sense ...
... Rome especially civic and personal honour flourish side by side . They stand now not for self - glorifying adventure , but for a rational , though élitist , conception of duty . With honour comes ' nobility ' , it too in a higher sense ...
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... Rome are absent . Monarchy triumphs , but is magnanimously forgiving . Language is energetic , dignified , and inflexible , and almost destitute of imagery . It is rhetoric rather than poetry . In the theatre rhetoric is more effective ...
... Rome are absent . Monarchy triumphs , but is magnanimously forgiving . Language is energetic , dignified , and inflexible , and almost destitute of imagery . It is rhetoric rather than poetry . In the theatre rhetoric is more effective ...
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... Rome dramatically emphasizes the completeness of their defeat in the capital . Other pitfalls might await a play about the death of a famous ruler , in the declining days of Elizabeth and the uncertainties of the succession . It ...
... Rome dramatically emphasizes the completeness of their defeat in the capital . Other pitfalls might await a play about the death of a famous ruler , in the declining days of Elizabeth and the uncertainties of the succession . It ...
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Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study Victor Gordon Kiernan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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