Shakespeare's Theater of Likeness - Shoaf, R. Allen
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The word "like" occurs some 2,400 times in the writings ascribed to Shakespeare. So many occurrences of the word suggest that Shakespeare's is a theater of likeness, "as you like it." This book demonstrates that part of the enduring value of Shakespeare's art is his poetry of likeness here, in the "land of unlikeness," where human beings invent their likenesses. It shows that Shakespeare's theater is also Shakespeare's theory of the psychology of likeness and unlikeness in the human striving for the most elusive (and allusive) of all attainments, an individual identity. "This is an…mehr

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The word "like" occurs some 2,400 times in the writings ascribed to Shakespeare. So many occurrences of the word suggest that Shakespeare's is a theater of likeness, "as you like it." This book demonstrates that part of the enduring value of Shakespeare's art is his poetry of likeness here, in the "land of unlikeness," where human beings invent their likenesses. It shows that Shakespeare's theater is also Shakespeare's theory of the psychology of likeness and unlikeness in the human striving for the most elusive (and allusive) of all attainments, an individual identity. "This is an extraordinary book, an examination like no other of Shakespeare's plays, a brilliant study . . . that will help shape for the next generation the way the world reads Shakespeare. It is long, dense, exciting, and exact. . . . But those to whom this method is congenial will treasure this work and will come to a new understanding of where Shakespeare's great power resides." - Mark Taylor, Professor of English, Manhattan College. "Professor Shoaf has picked up on Shakespeare's use of the word 'like' with its interesting ambiguities. . . . I can imagine this book being cited by Shakespeare critics and scholars in all kinds of contexts for years and years. . . . This book looks like a winner." - Norman N. Holland, Marston-Milbauer Professor of English, University of Florida. "I find this book to be a valuable and useful contribution to the understanding of Shakespeare. It is original and stimulating." - Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University.
Autorenporträt
R. Allen Shoaf, Alumni Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Florida, is the author of more than a dozen books and nearly 100 papers and reviews in literary studies, twice a holder of Fellowships of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Founding Editor of the prize-winning journal Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies--which he edited from 1987 until 2008--and the winner of six teaching awards during his career at UF, including 'University-Wide Teacher of the Year' in 1992. He is also the author of several books of poetry, most recently Pied-Piper Philology: Love Words, and a contributor to poetry magazines. Graduating from Wake Forest University in 1970, later that year, he took up a Marshall Scholarship to study in the United Kingdom (BA Hon., 1972). He has dedicated his career to Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton, authoring books and numerous articles on all three poets, and he has also published regularly over the past 40 years in Dante scholarship, especially regarding the relationship between late medieval sign theory and the Commedia. Language to Live In is his fourth book of poems and brings together his recent writings in eroticism, quantum physics, biology, neuroscience, and politics.