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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... shows , we are speaking of the gradual emergence of certain new historical forces connected with the growth of the bourgeoisie - forces which involve not only social and political upheaval , but a veritable revolution in the way that ...
... shows , we are speaking of the gradual emergence of certain new historical forces connected with the growth of the bourgeoisie - forces which involve not only social and political upheaval , but a veritable revolution in the way that ...
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... show us more in a face , or a landscape , than we have been able to decipher ourselves . Shakespeare observed the swirling life of London , and translated it into dramatic events . Hamlet wanted drama to be true to men's deeper feelings ...
... show us more in a face , or a landscape , than we have been able to decipher ourselves . Shakespeare observed the swirling life of London , and translated it into dramatic events . Hamlet wanted drama to be true to men's deeper feelings ...
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... 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 , with the Poor Law of 1601 . In that year John Wheeler , secretary of the ...
... 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 , with the Poor Law of 1601 . In that year John Wheeler , secretary of the ...
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... shows ghoulishly the traumas it could cause , its dehumanizing impact , its revelations of man's nature ( Wonderful Year 178 ff . ) . Modernity and its individualism were bringing liberation , enlargement ; but by snapping or weakening ...
... shows ghoulishly the traumas it could cause , its dehumanizing impact , its revelations of man's nature ( Wonderful Year 178 ff . ) . Modernity and its individualism were bringing liberation , enlargement ; but by snapping or weakening ...
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... shows at least that tragedy was recognized as the highest pinnacle of drama , even if to a good many spectators it may have meant not much more than blood- and - thunder , winding up with a pile of corpses . Every community needs ...
... shows at least that tragedy was recognized as the highest pinnacle of drama , even if to a good many spectators it may have meant not much more than blood- and - thunder , winding up with a pile of corpses . Every community needs ...
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Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study Victor Gordon Kiernan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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