J. Hart

Shakespeare

Poetry, History, and Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this stunning reinterpretation of Shakespeare s works, Jonathan Hart explores key topics such as love, lust, time, culture, and history to unlock the Bard s brilliant fictional worlds. From an in-depth look at the private and public myths of love in the narrative poems, through an examination of time in the sonnets, to a discussion of gender in the major history plays, this book offers close readings and new perspectives. Delving into the text and context of a wide range of poems and plays, Hart brings his wealth of experience to bear on Shakespeare s representation of history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-38020-6
• 1st ed. 2009
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781349380206
• ISBN-10: 1349380202
• Artikelnr.: 45582168

Autorenporträt

JONATHON HART is Director of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at University of Alberta, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I: POETRY Contexts Venus and Adonis Rape of Lucrece Sonnets PART II: CULTURE AND HISTORY Barbarism and Its Contexts Shakespeare's Representation of History Shakespeare's England and Italy Gender in the Second Tetralogy Henry V Henry VIII Conclusion

Rezensionen

"I am happy to have this volume on my shelves because it contains edited, student-accessible texts of a number of plays that would otherwise be more difficult to read and teach: this is a major publication in the area of non-Shakespearean drama, even if relation to Shakespeare is both its organizing principle and its commercial selling point." (SEL Studies in English Literature, Vol. 56 (2), 2016)