Mutability and Division on Shakespeare's StageUniversity of Delaware Press, 2004 - 223 pagina's This book explores how Shakespeare's plays dramatize the ways in which the struggle with mortality generates intractable divisions within human experience. The author illuminates how different plays uniquely illustrate, for example, the convergence in human affairs of political conflict and conflicting ways of answering life's finitude. Divisions within the self are further explored in relation to such dilemmas as conflicts between individual and collective ways of confronting death, or confusion between secular and sacred views of temporality. The cry of Remember Me from the Ghost of Hamlet's father, the melancholy Jacques' reflections on mortality, Leontes' fear of bodily corruption - they all under come under study to reveal how they express attitudes toward death that divide the self and the social order. The book is also rooted in the theater, and so relates the theatrical conventions of Shakespeare's time to the thematic matter of the book. The author demonstrates how the plays' divisions are related to stage practices and the mixing of illusionistic and nonillusionistic modes of acting. Yu Jin Ko is Associate Professor of English at Wellesley College. |
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Pagina 8
... poets like Berryman , Ashbery , Koch , and Bidart is not likely to make anyone more responsive to the civil injustices that permeate present society ; these poets will most of all show how intoxicatingly inventive one can be in freely ...
... poets like Berryman , Ashbery , Koch , and Bidart is not likely to make anyone more responsive to the civil injustices that permeate present society ; these poets will most of all show how intoxicatingly inventive one can be in freely ...
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... poet like Adrienne Rich makes this all too evident. I would note as an aside that I teach at Wellesley College, and thus ... poetry, in which ''love'' is held to be private and ''action'' public, her central protest boils down to this: I ...
... poet like Adrienne Rich makes this all too evident. I would note as an aside that I teach at Wellesley College, and thus ... poetry, in which ''love'' is held to be private and ''action'' public, her central protest boils down to this: I ...
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... poetry is a living action that rejects the claim of the early Lukács that the novel unfolds in the irony of knowing that the demand of literature against life is only a demand and not an effective reality . To use Bloom's language ...
... poetry is a living action that rejects the claim of the early Lukács that the novel unfolds in the irony of knowing that the demand of literature against life is only a demand and not an effective reality . To use Bloom's language ...
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... poet whose linguistic innovations , however widely circulated , would best remain confined to the private ? Such a ... poetic idiom . Political critiques directed at Shakespeare so often deny this separation . Nonetheless , the ...
... poet whose linguistic innovations , however widely circulated , would best remain confined to the private ? Such a ... poetic idiom . Political critiques directed at Shakespeare so often deny this separation . Nonetheless , the ...
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... poetry and philosophy, the tension be- tween an effort to achieve self-creation by the recognition of con- tingency and an effort to achieve universality by the transcendence of contingency.''6 Philosophy in the broadest sense begins ...
... poetry and philosophy, the tension be- tween an effort to achieve self-creation by the recognition of con- tingency and an effort to achieve universality by the transcendence of contingency.''6 Philosophy in the broadest sense begins ...
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The Comic Close of Twelfth Night and Violas Noli | 48 |
Charactor of Contingency | 77 |
The Worlds of Antony | 92 |
The Rejection of Love and the Staging of Necessity | 114 |
The Mousetrap of Hamlets Mystery | 137 |
Notes | 185 |
Bibliography | 209 |
Index | 221 |
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