Late Shakespeare
A New World of Words
Seiten
2000
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-818689-2 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-818689-2 (ISBN)
This text examines Shakespeare's late plays, which are usually seen in terms of courtliness and escapism. Post-structuralist and historicist approaches show the indeterminacy and materiality of language, but rarely identify how particular figures capture and energize contested history.
Shakespeare's late plays are usually seen in terms of courtliness and escapism. But the critical tradition has been too decorous. Neither neo-Christian pieties nor high-political allegory can account for the works' audacity and surprise, or the popular investment in both their form and meaning. Post-structuralist and historicist approaches show the indeterminacy and materiality of language, but rarely identify how particular figures (words and characters) capture and energize contested history. Recent criticism tends to put a pre-emptive 'master-paradigm' above all else; a more sinuous, minutely attentive critical vocabulary is needed to apprehend Shakespeare's turbulent, precise, teeming metaphorical discourse.
Shakespeare's late plays are usually seen in terms of courtliness and escapism. But the critical tradition has been too decorous. Neither neo-Christian pieties nor high-political allegory can account for the works' audacity and surprise, or the popular investment in both their form and meaning. Post-structuralist and historicist approaches show the indeterminacy and materiality of language, but rarely identify how particular figures (words and characters) capture and energize contested history. Recent criticism tends to put a pre-emptive 'master-paradigm' above all else; a more sinuous, minutely attentive critical vocabulary is needed to apprehend Shakespeare's turbulent, precise, teeming metaphorical discourse.
Simon Palfrey is Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne.
Introduction ; Romance, Irony and Humanism ; Pericles and the Idea of the Hero ; Body Language at Court ; Country Matters ; Magnetic Island and Islander in The Tempest ; Violence and Freedom ; Women and Romance ; Endings ; Bibliography ; Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.1.2000 |
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Reihe/Serie | Oxford English Monographs |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 139 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 386 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-818689-4 / 0198186894 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-818689-2 / 9780198186892 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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