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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... sense , a simple enough point to make . Yet one would have to search . very far to find another commentator on the plays so alert to the material conditions from which they emerge , and so unfashionably prepared to pass . political ...
... sense , a simple enough point to make . Yet one would have to search . very far to find another commentator on the plays so alert to the material conditions from which they emerge , and so unfashionably prepared to pass . political ...
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... sense of sexual impotence ' ( 303 ) . Ophelia's family would have been relieved to know this . Listening to his self - communing while he watches Claudius at prayer , Erlich detects a desire for his uncle to be punished by God , a ...
... sense of sexual impotence ' ( 303 ) . Ophelia's family would have been relieved to know this . Listening to his self - communing while he watches Claudius at prayer , Erlich detects a desire for his uncle to be punished by God , a ...
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Victor Kiernan. To make sense of the psychoanalytical approach , we must first suppose that Shakespeare had no inkling of his own true meaning , that his uncon- scious self , or pen , was translating his psychic disturbances into ...
Victor Kiernan. To make sense of the psychoanalytical approach , we must first suppose that Shakespeare had no inkling of his own true meaning , that his uncon- scious self , or pen , was translating his psychic disturbances into ...
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... sense of collective admission of its existence , only occurs when the poor show by some eruption like this that they realize how things are going against them . Some rough awareness of their condition had been shown by those in power ...
... sense of collective admission of its existence , only occurs when the poor show by some eruption like this that they realize how things are going against them . Some rough awareness of their condition had been shown by those in power ...
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... sense of . His government was more and more anxious to curb theological controversy in the pulpits , as likely to have unsettling effects on ordinary men and women . Semi - Pelagian ideas , free will carefully toned down , were being ...
... sense of . His government was more and more anxious to curb theological controversy in the pulpits , as likely to have unsettling effects on ordinary men and women . Semi - Pelagian ideas , free will carefully toned down , were being ...
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Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study Victor Gordon Kiernan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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