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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... 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 men and women ...
... 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 men and women ...
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... speak through them ; and this means also that they must be in a way mysterious , to themselves as well as to others they must be surprised at times by what they are doing , as well as by what is happening to them . Nowhere were the ...
... speak through them ; and this means also that they must be in a way mysterious , to themselves as well as to others they must be surprised at times by what they are doing , as well as by what is happening to them . Nowhere were the ...
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... speak , a more transcendental aid , a gorgeous cloak of images . Concepts , sensations , memories , otherwise speechless , could be given wings by them . Hence the amazing and unique development ' of his imagery , until it came to form ...
... speak , a more transcendental aid , a gorgeous cloak of images . Concepts , sensations , memories , otherwise speechless , could be given wings by them . Hence the amazing and unique development ' of his imagery , until it came to form ...
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... speak , by time but not over - remote , not yet mummified . Shakespeare- and his fellows could believe that they knew enough about Julius Caesar to show him as he was . About the common man of far - off ages they knew little or nothing ...
... speak , by time but not over - remote , not yet mummified . Shakespeare- and his fellows could believe that they knew enough about Julius Caesar to show him as he was . About the common man of far - off ages they knew little or nothing ...
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... speak their contradictory minds , and to leave it to their words and actions to arouse our minds . He made conscious for us our own thoughts and those of our fellows ; our choice is our own . Yet a poet , 40 EIGHT TRAGEDIES OF SHAKESPEARE.
... speak their contradictory minds , and to leave it to their words and actions to arouse our minds . He made conscious for us our own thoughts and those of our fellows ; our choice is our own . Yet a poet , 40 EIGHT TRAGEDIES OF SHAKESPEARE.
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Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study Victor Gordon Kiernan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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