Angelika Zirker

William Shakespeare and John Donne (eBook, ePUB)

Stages of the soul in early modern English poetry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne. It shows how the soul becomes a linking element between the genres of poetry and drama, and how poetry becomes dramatic whenever the soul is at its focus. This double movement can be observed in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and Donne's Holy Sonnets: in these texts, the connection between interiority and performance, psychology and religious self-care can be found, which is central to the understanding of early modern drama and its characteristic development of the soliloquy. The study thus offers a new reading of the poems by Shakespeare and Donne by analysing them, in different ways, as staged dialogues within the soul. It contributes to research on the soliloquy as much as on concepts of inwardness during the early modern period. The book is aimed at readers studying early modern literature and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526133311
• Artikelnr.: 56523936

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