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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... Human Kind , European Empires from Conquest to Collapse , The Duel in European History and numerous others , as well as translating two volumes of Urdu poetry . Other works by Victor Kiernan available from Zed Books Shakespeare : Poet ...
... Human Kind , European Empires from Conquest to Collapse , The Duel in European History and numerous others , as well as translating two volumes of Urdu poetry . Other works by Victor Kiernan available from Zed Books Shakespeare : Poet ...
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... human nature , one which it is not hard to see Shakespeare himself as endorsing , for which the self is constituted not by its own autonomous , self - determining powers but by its kinship , social functions and political loyalties as ...
... human nature , one which it is not hard to see Shakespeare himself as endorsing , for which the self is constituted not by its own autonomous , self - determining powers but by its kinship , social functions and political loyalties as ...
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... human nature , that is , and its social setting . Dr Johnson in turn found Shakespeare's greatest quality in his fidelity to truth and reality , his holding up ' a faithful mirrour of manners and of life ' ( 3 , 11 ) . Clearly , however ...
... human nature , that is , and its social setting . Dr Johnson in turn found Shakespeare's greatest quality in his fidelity to truth and reality , his holding up ' a faithful mirrour of manners and of life ' ( 3 , 11 ) . Clearly , however ...
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... human beings and their heartbeats ; most of us are , by comparison , usually obtuse , impermeable . Countless spectators and readers have found his characters ' life - like ' , as Johnson did ; we can believe in the possibility of men ...
... human beings and their heartbeats ; most of us are , by comparison , usually obtuse , impermeable . Countless spectators and readers have found his characters ' life - like ' , as Johnson did ; we can believe in the possibility of men ...
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... human speech , That awful power rose from the mind's abyss . He came to be equally but painfully aware that our conscious feelings have their foundations ' fearfully low ' in human nature and , he might have added , in the societies men ...
... human speech , That awful power rose from the mind's abyss . He came to be equally but painfully aware that our conscious feelings have their foundations ' fearfully low ' in human nature and , he might have added , in the societies men ...
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Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study Victor Gordon Kiernan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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