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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... becomes tragically aware of just how much eludes the conscious mind and shades off into darkness . As for French neo- classical drama , Lucien Goldmann has brilliantly demonstrated in The Hidden God how the silence of God in an ...
... becomes tragically aware of just how much eludes the conscious mind and shades off into darkness . As for French neo- classical drama , Lucien Goldmann has brilliantly demonstrated in The Hidden God how the silence of God in an ...
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... become one to conjure with , and a great deal of conjuring has been done with it ; we begin to feel , like Macbeth after first meeting the witches , that we are in a realm where nothing is but what is not ' . If Bradley and other ...
... become one to conjure with , and a great deal of conjuring has been done with it ; we begin to feel , like Macbeth after first meeting the witches , that we are in a realm where nothing is but what is not ' . If Bradley and other ...
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... become socialists . A good many , as students of culture , have also been drawn to modern psychoanalytic theory . Some have been guided by a religious outlook . Shakespeare has always had readers who have felt Christian ideas at work in ...
... become socialists . A good many , as students of culture , have also been drawn to modern psychoanalytic theory . Some have been guided by a religious outlook . Shakespeare has always had readers who have felt Christian ideas at work in ...
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... become so advanced a thinker that Shakespeare has lost all meaning for him ( see Times Literary Supplement , 7 April 1995 , 16 ) . All agree on the crucial importance of men's social- economic activity and relationships for any ...
... become so advanced a thinker that Shakespeare has lost all meaning for him ( see Times Literary Supplement , 7 April 1995 , 16 ) . All agree on the crucial importance of men's social- economic activity and relationships for any ...
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... become primarily subjective , with collective concerns in the background at most ( Poetry 76-7 ) . The Shakespearian case that comes closest to fitting this view is Othello . Yet even here the concern is not simply with one woman's ...
... become primarily subjective , with collective concerns in the background at most ( Poetry 76-7 ) . The Shakespearian case that comes closest to fitting this view is Othello . Yet even here the concern is not simply with one woman's ...
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Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study Victor Gordon Kiernan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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