Late Shakespeare : A New World of Words

ISBN-13: 9780198186199 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 312 str.

Simon (University Of Liverpool) Palfrey

Opis

Palfrey presents a new vision of character, metaphor, and politics in late Shakespeare. Closely analyzing Shakespeare's use of language and genre, he shows how the plays revamp theatrical decorums. The plays are not courtly, sober, and escapist, as their reputation suggests; rather, they are peculiarly sensitive to the turbulent, unfinished quality of Shakespeare's historical moment. In both court and wilderness, Shakespeare analyzes the violence of authority, the tensions in language, and the origin and prospects of both. Palfrey argues against a conventional sense of the plays' movement towards divinely sanctioned closure; mischief, irony, polysemy remain; romance's political problems are competitive, multiple, and tumescently unpredictable.

Recenzje

presents valuable insights into the undercurrent of turbulence and discord that informs these romantic plays - R.H. Peake, formerly of the University of Virginia, Choice, Vol 35, No. 10, June '98