Hugh Grady

Shakespeare's Dialectic of Hope (eBook, PDF)

From the Political to the Utopian

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare was fascinated by power throughout his career but also understood its dangers and limits. Utopian visions were his solution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009117142
• Artikelnr.: 70910471

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.