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Author: Willard Farnham Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
Shakespeare's Tragic Frontier: The World Of His Final Tragedies is a book written by Willard Farnham that explores the themes and settings of William Shakespeare's final tragedies. Farnham argues that Shakespeare's last plays, including Macbeth, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra, are set in a frontier world where traditional values and structures are breaking down. He examines the ways in which Shakespeare uses this frontier setting to explore themes of power, ambition, betrayal, and redemption.Farnham also delves into the historical context of Shakespeare's final plays, looking at the political and social upheavals of the time and how they may have influenced the playwright's work. He explores the role of gender and sexuality in these plays, as well as the complex relationships between characters.Throughout the book, Farnham provides close readings of key scenes and passages from Shakespeare's final tragedies, offering insights into the language, symbolism, and themes of these works. He also draws on contemporary critical theory to illuminate Shakespeare's use of genre, narrative structure, and other literary techniques.Overall, Shakespeare's Tragic Frontier offers a fresh and insightful perspective on some of Shakespeare's most enduring works, shedding new light on their themes, settings, and cultural context.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
Author: Willard Farnham Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
Shakespeare's Tragic Frontier: The World Of His Final Tragedies is a book written by Willard Farnham that explores the themes and settings of William Shakespeare's final tragedies. Farnham argues that Shakespeare's last plays, including Macbeth, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra, are set in a frontier world where traditional values and structures are breaking down. He examines the ways in which Shakespeare uses this frontier setting to explore themes of power, ambition, betrayal, and redemption.Farnham also delves into the historical context of Shakespeare's final plays, looking at the political and social upheavals of the time and how they may have influenced the playwright's work. He explores the role of gender and sexuality in these plays, as well as the complex relationships between characters.Throughout the book, Farnham provides close readings of key scenes and passages from Shakespeare's final tragedies, offering insights into the language, symbolism, and themes of these works. He also draws on contemporary critical theory to illuminate Shakespeare's use of genre, narrative structure, and other literary techniques.Overall, Shakespeare's Tragic Frontier offers a fresh and insightful perspective on some of Shakespeare's most enduring works, shedding new light on their themes, settings, and cultural context.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
Author: Nicholas Grene Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230379192 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 309
Book Description
The world of Macbeth, with its absolutes of good and evil, seems very remote from the shifting perspectives of Antony and Cleopatra, or the psychological and political realities of Coriolanus. Yet all three plays share similar thematic concerns and preoccupations: the relation of power to legitimating authority, for instance, or of male and female roles in the imagination of (male) heroic endeavour. In this acclaimed study, Nicholas Grene shows how all nine plays written in Shakespeare's main tragic period display this combination of strikingly different milieu balanced by thematic interrelationships. Taking the English history play as his starting point, he argues that Shakespeare established two different modes of imagining: the one mythic and visionary, the other sceptical and analytic. In the tragic plays that followed, themes and situations are dramatised, alternately, in sacred and secular worlds. A chapter is devoted to each tragedy, but with a continuing awareness of companion plays: the analysis of Julius Caesar informing that of Hamlet, discussion of Troilus and Cressida counterpointed by the critique of Othello and the treatment of King Lear growing out from the limitations of Timon of Athens. The aim is to resist homogenising the plays but to recognise and explore the unique imaginative enterprise from which they arose.
Author: Kenneth Muir Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136568603 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 224
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First published in 1972. The emphasis of this book is that each of Shakespeare's tragedies demanded its own individual form and that although certain themes run through most of the tragedies, nearly all critics refrain from the attempt to apply external rules to them. The plays are almost always concerned with one person; they end with the death of the hero; the suffering and calamity that befall him are exceptional; and the tragedies include the medieval idea of the reversal of fortune.
Author: Larry S. Champion Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820338443 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 288
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This work directs attention to the various structural devices by which Shakespeare creates and sustains anticipation in his audience whil simultaneously provoking them to participate in the tragic protagonist's anguish.
Author: James C. Bulman Publisher: University of Delaware Press ISBN: 9780874132717 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 276
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Shakespeare's idiom is an aggregate of archaic modes of speech and codes of conduct. This book attempts to make that idiom more accessible and, in the process, to illuminate the significance of heroic concepts to a study of Shakespeare's tragedies and histories.
Author: D. Douglas Waters Publisher: Associated University Presse ISBN: 9780838635285 Category : Christian drama, English Languages : en Pages : 334
Book Description
Battenhouse's Shakespearean tragedy: Its art and Christian premises, Irving Ribner's Patterns in Shakespearian tragedy, Virgil K. Whitaker's The mirror up to nature: The techniques of Shakespeare's tragedies, and Robert Grams Hunter's Shakespeare and the mystery of God's judgments. Waters questions, for example, Battenhouse's validity of Christian theological and didactic emphases on the old purgation theory of catharsis. His approach differs also from Northrop Frye's views on the tragedies in Northrop Frye on Shakespeare, an archetypal approach to representative plays including the tragedies.
Author: Frederick William Sternfeld Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415353274 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 392
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First published in 1963. When originally published this book was the first to treat at full length the contribution which music makes to Shakespeare's great tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. Here the playwright's practices are studied in conjunction with those of his contemporaries: Marlowe and Jonson, Marston and Chapman. From these comparative assessments there emerges the method that is peculiar to Shakespeare: the employment of song and instrumental music to a degree hitherto unknown, and their use as an integral part of the dramatic structure.
Author: F W Sternfeld Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136569162 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
First published in 1963. When originally published this book was the first to treat at full length the contribution which music makes to Shakespeare's great tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. Here the playwright's practices are studied in conjunction with those of his contemporaries: Marlowe and Jonson, Marston and Chapman. From these comparative assessments there emerges the method that is peculiar to Shakespeare: the employment of song and instrumental music to a degree hitherto unknown, and their use as an integral part of the dramatic structure.
Author: Willard Farnham
Author: Willard Farnham
Author: Lily Bess Campbell
Author: Nicholas Grene
Author: Kenneth Muir
Author: Lily Bess Campbell
Author: Larry S. Champion
Author: James C. Bulman
Author: D. Douglas Waters
Author: Frederick William Sternfeld
Author: F W Sternfeld