Michael D Bristol

Big-Time Shakespeare

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bristol debates Shakespeare's cultural authority, and clarifies the semantics of his name in our culture. Big-time Shakespeare suggests his plays represent the pathos of our civilization with extraordinary force and clarity. His characters remain interesting because we recognize what the are going through.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 137mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780415060172
• ISBN-10: 0415060176
• Artikelnr.: 22301692

Autorenporträt

Michael D. Bristol

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: The supply side of culture
1. Introduction
2. The bias of the world
3. Shakespearean technologies
4. Crying all the way to the bank
Part II The pathos of Western modernity
5. Re-introduction: Essential Shakespeare
6. Social time in The Winter's Tale
7. Race and the comedy of abjection in Othello
8. Calvin and Hobbes
or what was democracy
References. Index.