English Drama 1586-1642
The Age of Shakespeare
Seiten
1997
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-812213-5 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-812213-5 (ISBN)
Shakespeare is usually set apart from his contemporaries, in kind no less than quality. This book sees Elizabethan drama as drawn together by a shared need to deal with contradictory pressures from heterogeneous audiences, censorious authorities, profit driven managers, and authors looking for classic status and social esteem. The power of poetry gives these contradictory purposes an intensity and scope that speaks directly to our own motives, aspirations, and evasions. But this connection must be shallow if we do not face the strangeness as well as the accessibility of this repertory. Starting from texts rather than systems, experience rather than explanation, Hunter argues that only by treating the unfamiliar and even the distasteful with equal seriousness can we allow the familiar in Shakespeare its historical separateness as well as its imaginative intimacy.
G. K. Hunter is Emily Sandford Professor Emeritus at Yale University.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.6.1997 |
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Reihe/Serie | Oxford History of English Literature ; VI |
Zusatzinfo | map |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 147 x 224 mm |
Gewicht | 937 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-812213-6 / 0198122136 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-812213-5 / 9780198122135 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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