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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... brings radical social change is not in any direct fashion the new machine - which grown - ups as well as children are apt to accept with surprisingly little surprise , but the altered human relationships which it may help to bring about ...
... brings radical social change is not in any direct fashion the new machine - which grown - ups as well as children are apt to accept with surprisingly little surprise , but the altered human relationships which it may help to bring about ...
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... reflects an era when every day might bring its novelty , great or small , and admonish people , or those with ears to hear , of how much they themselves were altering . A new face on coins , when few 1 The Condition of England.
... reflects an era when every day might bring its novelty , great or small , and admonish people , or those with ears to hear , of how much they themselves were altering . A new face on coins , when few 1 The Condition of England.
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... bringing liberation , enlargement ; but by snapping or weakening old social ties they were leaving the individual in some ways impoverished , or unbalanced . Hence the clutching at newer , less personal ties , like aggressive ...
... bringing liberation , enlargement ; but by snapping or weakening old social ties they were leaving the individual in some ways impoverished , or unbalanced . Hence the clutching at newer , less personal ties , like aggressive ...
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... bringing himself closer to the afflictions of his fellows he discards illusions and pettinesses of his own , and confronts reality . Tragedy therefore shows the poet at his highest , as man as well as writer , and is only possible to ...
... bringing himself closer to the afflictions of his fellows he discards illusions and pettinesses of his own , and confronts reality . Tragedy therefore shows the poet at his highest , as man as well as writer , and is only possible to ...
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... bring under closer control , with the help of a dawning national spirit that the theatre , like the Church , could help to fan . England had its Celtic appendages ; Spain , like England after 1603 , was a combination of two countries ...
... bring under closer control , with the help of a dawning national spirit that the theatre , like the Church , could help to fan . England had its Celtic appendages ; Spain , like England after 1603 , was a combination of two countries ...
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Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study Victor Gordon Kiernan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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