Hugh Grady (Pennsylvania Arcadia University)

Shakespeare's Dialectic of Hope

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Produktbeschreibung

This study charts how Shakespeare's early fascination with power developed into the profoundly optimistic utopian visions suffusing his later tragicomedies. Hugh Grady shows how five of Shakespeare's most important plays presciently confront dilemmas of an emerging modernity, diagnosing and indicting instrumental politics and capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781009098090
• ISBN-10: 1009098098
• Artikelnr.: 62665948

Autorenporträt

Hugh Grady is Professor Emeritus at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, where he specialized in Shakespeare, early modern English literature, and critical theory. He has authored numerous articles and several books on Shakespeare, including The Modernist Shakespeare (1991), Shakespeare, Machiavelli and Montaigne (2002), and Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Shakespeare and the Political: 1. Julius Caesar and reified power:
the end of Shakespeare's Machiavellian moment; 2. Macbeth: a tragedy of
force; 3. Baroque aesthetics and witches in Macbeth; Part II. Shakespeare
and the Aesthetic-Utopian: 4. From the political to the aesthetic-utopian
in Antony and Cleopatra; 5. Tyranny, imagination, and the aesthetic-utopian
in The Winter's Tale; 6. The political, the aesthetic, and the utopian in
The Tempest: enchantment in a disenchanted world.