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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... standing of our past and our efforts to chart our future . Social progress without cultural progress can scarcely be possible , at least if it is to be of a kind worth having . Two adages may be cited from a study by one of the most ...
... standing of our past and our efforts to chart our future . Social progress without cultural progress can scarcely be possible , at least if it is to be of a kind worth having . Two adages may be cited from a study by one of the most ...
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... stand out clearly enough in the way his characters talk of one another , or in collisions like the one compressed into the figures of Shylock and Antonio , or those between nobles and peasants in Henry VI , patricians and plebeians in ...
... stand out clearly enough in the way his characters talk of one another , or in collisions like the one compressed into the figures of Shylock and Antonio , or those between nobles and peasants in Henry VI , patricians and plebeians in ...
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... standing on now , he can scarcely have known himself , until his play and its compass - points took shape round him . In its abrupt leaps too the sequence is remarkable , from civilization into the barbaric depths of King Lear and ...
... standing on now , he can scarcely have known himself , until his play and its compass - points took shape round him . In its abrupt leaps too the sequence is remarkable , from civilization into the barbaric depths of King Lear and ...
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... stand now not for self - glorifying adventure , but for a rational , though élitist , conception of duty . With honour comes ' nobility ' , it too in a higher sense than before . It is not a mere badge of rank , as it usually was in the ...
... stand now not for self - glorifying adventure , but for a rational , though élitist , conception of duty . With honour comes ' nobility ' , it too in a higher sense than before . It is not a mere badge of rank , as it usually was in the ...
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... stand out from the ghostly throng . Goethe himself had to confess that he would have liked to write ' a round dozen ' of tragedies like Iphigenia and Tasso , as a contribution towards the founding of a German national drama , if he had ...
... stand out from the ghostly throng . Goethe himself had to confess that he would have liked to write ' a round dozen ' of tragedies like Iphigenia and Tasso , as a contribution towards the founding of a German national drama , if he had ...
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Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study Victor Gordon Kiernan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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