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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... character who must deploy his rational powers to discover the fearful secret of his origin , but who in doing so becomes tragically aware of just how much eludes the conscious mind and shades off into darkness . As for French neo ...
... character who must deploy his rational powers to discover the fearful secret of his origin , but who in doing so becomes tragically aware of just how much eludes the conscious mind and shades off into darkness . As for French neo ...
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... characters ' life - like ' , as Johnson did ; we can believe in the possibility of men and women like them , and are aware of kindred features in ourselves . Yet four centuries of vertiginous change stretch between them and us . On the ...
... characters ' life - like ' , as Johnson did ; we can believe in the possibility of men and women like them , and are aware of kindred features in ourselves . Yet four centuries of vertiginous change stretch between them and us . On the ...
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... characters are often highly imaginative . They must be , if a great poet is to be able to speak through them ; and ... character ' , and an effort to blow up Shakespeare's dramatis personae into real - life beings , with regular life ...
... characters are often highly imaginative . They must be , if a great poet is to be able to speak through them ; and ... character ' , and an effort to blow up Shakespeare's dramatis personae into real - life beings , with regular life ...
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... character is ' too often an individual ' , with Shakespeare it is commonly a species ' ( 12 ) . Johnson had in mind the ... characters in Shakespeare are always seen in social situations ' . ' Shakespeare's psychology 15 PROGRAMMATIC.
... character is ' too often an individual ' , with Shakespeare it is commonly a species ' ( 12 ) . Johnson had in mind the ... characters in Shakespeare are always seen in social situations ' . ' Shakespeare's psychology 15 PROGRAMMATIC.
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... character and culture . Dutchmen were embarking on their conquests in the Indian Ocean , while England was completing its long - drawn conquest of Ireland and feeling its way across the Atlantic . Spain and Portugal , the original ...
... character and culture . Dutchmen were embarking on their conquests in the Indian Ocean , while England was completing its long - drawn conquest of Ireland and feeling its way across the Atlantic . Spain and Portugal , the original ...
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Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study Victor Gordon Kiernan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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