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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... talks of ' Lear's related tyranny and incestuousness ( 156-7 ) - another note too casually harped on by Freudians . ' Literary criticism ... is in crisis ' , Norman Rabkin ( Meaning 1 ) felt obliged to admit in 1981 ; he was , however ...
... talks of ' Lear's related tyranny and incestuousness ( 156-7 ) - another note too casually harped on by Freudians . ' Literary criticism ... is in crisis ' , Norman Rabkin ( Meaning 1 ) felt obliged to admit in 1981 ; he was , however ...
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... talks of the impudent struttings of ' proud Tragedians ' ( Belman 268 ) ; authors may well have felt envious of their perfomers . This immature preference , shared by today's cinema - goers , was counterbalanced by willingness to listen ...
... talks of the impudent struttings of ' proud Tragedians ' ( Belman 268 ) ; authors may well have felt envious of their perfomers . This immature preference , shared by today's cinema - goers , was counterbalanced by willingness to listen ...
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... talking of plebeian holiday moods , deemed it ' good policy to amaze those violent spirits with some tearing Tragoedy ... talk of their ' griefs ' , and are promised ' redress ' ( IV.i ; IV.ii.59 ) ; Casca urges Cassius to be ' factious ...
... talking of plebeian holiday moods , deemed it ' good policy to amaze those violent spirits with some tearing Tragoedy ... talk of their ' griefs ' , and are promised ' redress ' ( IV.i ; IV.ii.59 ) ; Casca urges Cassius to be ' factious ...
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... 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 Coriolanus . What is missing , in both Histories and ...
... 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 Coriolanus . What is missing , in both Histories and ...
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... talk plain prose . In French classical tragedy there could be no place for such plebeians , or for prose . In Shakespeare's theatre they provide a backcloth , sometimes a yardstick , for the heroic doings of their superiors ; they ...
... talk plain prose . In French classical tragedy there could be no place for such plebeians , or for prose . In Shakespeare's theatre they provide a backcloth , sometimes a yardstick , for the heroic doings of their superiors ; they ...
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Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study Victor Gordon Kiernan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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