Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy

ISBN-13: 9780367872793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 204 str.

Derek Gottlieb

Opis

This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy, arguing that the comedies, no less than the tragedies, serve to dramatize responses to the condition of being human, responses that invite scholarly investigation and explanation.　Taking its cue from Stanley Cavell’s influential readings of Othello and Lear, it

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. A Defactoist Practice of Literary Scholarship  3. Much Ado About Nothing  4. A Midsummer Night's Dream  5. As You Like It  6. Coda

O autorze

Derek Gottlieb is a Research Fellow in the English Department at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He holds PhDs in English Literature and in Education, and has published on teacher training and educational evaluation in addition to Shakespeare.