Theodore Spencer

Shakespeare and the Nature of Man

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Spencer's 1943 book investigates how conflicting Renaissance understandings of human nature are expressed in Shakespeare's works.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9781108003773
• ISBN-10: 110800377X
• Artikelnr.: 26871952

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Man in nature: the optimistic theory
2. Man in nature: the Renaissance conflict
3. The dramatic convention and Shakespeare's early use of it
4. Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida
5. Othello and King Lear
6. Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra
7. Shakespeare's last plays
8. Literature and the nature of man
Index.