Angelika Zirker

William Shakespeare and John Donne

Stages of the soul in early modern English poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and John Donne's Holy Sonnets are read against the background of concepts of the soul during the early modern period. This approach provides new insights into concepts of interiority and performance as well as a new understanding of the soliloquy in both poetry and drama.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9781526133298
• ISBN-10: 1526133296
• Artikelnr.: 54409917

Autorenporträt

Angelika Zirker is Assistant Professor of English Philology (English Literature and Culture) at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: stages of the soul and drama in poetry Part I William
Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and the drama of the soul 1 Motivating
the myth: allegory and psychology 2 'Thou art not what thou seem'st':
Tarquin's inner stage and outer action 3 'But with my body my poor soul's
pollution': Lucrece, her body, and soul 4 Lust-breathed Tarquin - Lucrece,
the name of chaste: antagonism, parallelism, and chiasmus Part II John
Donne's Holy Sonnets and the so(u)le-talk of the soul 5 Divine comedies:
the speaker, his soul, and the poem as stage 6 The sonnet as miniature
drama: Donne's Holy Sonnet 'Oh my black Soule' 7 Sole-talk and soul-talk:
Donne's so(u)liloquies in the Holy Sonnets 8 The speaker on the stage of
the poem: Holy Sonnet 'This is my Playes last Scene' 9 Dialogue and
antagonism in Donne's theatre of the soul Part III Conclusion 10
So(u)le-talk, self, and stages of the soul Bibliography Index