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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... critic has hardly anything to go on except the outline of his life , what he wrote ( or was published under his name ) , and the condition social , political , ideological of the England and Europe he lived in . My search has been for ...
... critic has hardly anything to go on except the outline of his life , what he wrote ( or was published under his name ) , and the condition social , political , ideological of the England and Europe he lived in . My search has been for ...
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... critics than today . Hence readers of any study of him now want to know , it appears , not only what its writer has to say , but what his affiliations are , what flag he marches under . To meet this Qui va là ! or challenge , I have ...
... critics than today . Hence readers of any study of him now want to know , it appears , not only what its writer has to say , but what his affiliations are , what flag he marches under . To meet this Qui va là ! or challenge , I have ...
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... critics , Thomas Gray ( a historian too , like all good critics ) , remarked that none of the new tragedies ever made him shed tears , and only the least bad of them could keep him from laughing ( letter to Dr Wharton , 26 Dec , 1754 ) ...
... critics , Thomas Gray ( a historian too , like all good critics ) , remarked that none of the new tragedies ever made him shed tears , and only the least bad of them could keep him from laughing ( letter to Dr Wharton , 26 Dec , 1754 ) ...
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... critics of French avant - garde jargon , disguising ' an essential scepticism ' about any objective values ( 518 ) : they are free , in other words , to rewrite Shakespeare as they please . He remarks also on how much can be achieved by ...
... critics of French avant - garde jargon , disguising ' an essential scepticism ' about any objective values ( 518 ) : they are free , in other words , to rewrite Shakespeare as they please . He remarks also on how much can be achieved by ...
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... critics , Lukács , of modern realism . One is that in our age a writer ( and therefore a critic ) must be alive to the significance of socialism ( or in the first place perhaps it should be said of social problems , like hunger ) . A ...
... critics , Lukács , of modern realism . One is that in our age a writer ( and therefore a critic ) must be alive to the significance of socialism ( or in the first place perhaps it should be said of social problems , like hunger ) . A ...
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Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study Victor Gordon Kiernan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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