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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... tragedy and the modern period from Ibsen to Arthur Miller - and all of them occur at a time of momentous transition . More particularly , tragedy tends to emerge at a point where a traditional order is still up and running but is ...
... tragedy and the modern period from Ibsen to Arthur Miller - and all of them occur at a time of momentous transition . More particularly , tragedy tends to emerge at a point where a traditional order is still up and running but is ...
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... tragedies with the ' problem plays ' , belonging to the same period ( and Troilus and Cressida itself a kind of tragedy ) . But as this would have required too much space , these and the later plays have been postponed , and the present ...
... tragedies with the ' problem plays ' , belonging to the same period ( and Troilus and Cressida itself a kind of tragedy ) . But as this would have required too much space , these and the later plays have been postponed , and the present ...
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... tragedy was lowest of all , and only kept alive to flatter well - dressed theatre - goers into thinking themselves highly cultivated . One of the best poets and critics , Thomas Gray ( a historian too , like all good critics ) ...
... tragedy was lowest of all , and only kept alive to flatter well - dressed theatre - goers into thinking themselves highly cultivated . One of the best poets and critics , Thomas Gray ( a historian too , like all good critics ) ...
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... tragedies and ' problem plays ' belong to a central point in the long - drawn transition from one era to another . Only some such critical turning - point of history could engender that rare phenomenon , Tragedy . A social order slowly ...
... tragedies and ' problem plays ' belong to a central point in the long - drawn transition from one era to another . Only some such critical turning - point of history could engender that rare phenomenon , Tragedy . A social order slowly ...
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... tragedy . If so , it may not be surprising that from 1599 to 1608 nearly all the plays put on at ' private ' theatres were comedies , while the public playhouses were turning from history to tragedy . On the whole it seems legitimate to ...
... tragedy . If so , it may not be surprising that from 1599 to 1608 nearly all the plays put on at ' private ' theatres were comedies , while the public playhouses were turning from history to tragedy . On the whole it seems legitimate to ...
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Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study Victor Gordon Kiernan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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