Pauline Kiernan

Shakespeare's Theory of Drama

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Brian Gibbons presents the idea of multiplicity as a way of understanding the form and style of Shakespeare's plays: Composed of many different codes, woven together in a unique pattern for each play, rather than variations on the fixed notion of comedy or tragedy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780521633581
• ISBN-10: 0521633583
• Artikelnr.: 21544848

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Shakespeare and Sidney. Two worlds: the brazen and the
golden; 3. Shakespeare and Ovid: 'What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend':
poetry metamorphosed in Venus and Adonis and the Sonnets; 4. 'In scorn of
nature, art gave lifeless life': exposing art's sterility. The Rape of
Lucrece, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest; 5. 'O'er-wrested seeming':
dramatic illusion and the repudiation of mimesis: Love's Labour's Lost, A
Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet; 6. 'Thy registers and thee I both
defy': history challenged: Richard III, Henry VIII, Henry V and Richard II;
7. Antony and Cleopatra as 'A defence of drama'.