Shakespeare's Dialectic of Hope: From the Political to the Utopian

ISBN-13: 9781009098090 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 280 str.

Pennsylvania) Grady Hugh (Arcadia University

Opis

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

Recenzje

'In this stunningly lucid, philosophically astute, and endlessly revealing study, Hugh Grady enlists the utopian and the aesthetic as necessary correctives to any reductively political reading of Shakespeare. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the evolving meanings of Shakespeare's plays and the legacies of political criticism.' Julia Reinhard Lupton, The University of California, Irvine

Spis treści

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.