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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... fate has a bearing on everyone's life under its corrupt oligarchy . The speech in Hamlet about the king as a great wheel , to which all his subjects fortunes are tied ( III.iii.15 ff . ) , only expresses in archaic form the ...
... fate has a bearing on everyone's life under its corrupt oligarchy . The speech in Hamlet about the king as a great wheel , to which all his subjects fortunes are tied ( III.iii.15 ff . ) , only expresses in archaic form the ...
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... fate of the whole community was at stake . Shakespeare had to appear , and no doubt was , ' on this side idolatry ' , an admirer of the Tudor regime which completed the transformation of a medieval baronage into a semi - modern ...
... fate of the whole community was at stake . Shakespeare had to appear , and no doubt was , ' on this side idolatry ' , an admirer of the Tudor regime which completed the transformation of a medieval baronage into a semi - modern ...
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... fates it seems to teach the historic lesson that nothing short of a cataclysm of some kind can jolt sluggish humanity out of its customary unthinking grooves . In this can be recognized the affinity between tragedy and revolution . To ...
... fates it seems to teach the historic lesson that nothing short of a cataclysm of some kind can jolt sluggish humanity out of its customary unthinking grooves . In this can be recognized the affinity between tragedy and revolution . To ...
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Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study Victor Gordon Kiernan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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