Shakespeare the ThinkerYale University Press, 2007 - 428 Seiten A. D. Nuttall’s study of Shakespeare’s intellectual preoccupations is a literary tour de force and comes to crown the distinguished career of a Shakespeare scholar. Certain questions engross Shakespeare from his early plays to the late romances: the nature of motive, cause, personal identity and relation, the proper status of imagination, ethics and subjectivity, language and its capacity to occlude and to communicate. Yet Shakespeare’s thought, Nuttall demonstrates, is anything but static. The plays keep returning to, modifying, and complicating his creative preoccupations. Nuttall allows us to hear and appreciate the emergent cathedral choir of play speaking to play. By the later stages of Nuttall’s book this choir is nearly overwhelming in its power and dimensions. The author does not limit discussion to moments of crucial intellection but gives himself ample space in which to get at the distinctive essence of each work. Much recent historicist criticism has tended to "flatten” Shakespeare by confining him to the thought-clich s of his time, and this in its turn has led to an implicitly patronizing view of him as unthinkingly racist, sexist, and so on. Nuttall shows us that, on the contrary, Shakespeare proves again and again to be more intelligent and perceptive than his 21st-century readers. This book challenges us to reconsider the relation of great literature to its social and historical matrix. It is also, perhaps, the best guide to Shakespeare’s plays available in English. |
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... dreaming , and Mercutio is eager to make fun of the dream , which he fears will be a love dream . His speech is an exercise in minimizing , in making small . One reason why J. R. R. Tolkien used to find A Midsummer Night's Dream ...
... dreaming , and Mercutio is eager to make fun of the dream , which he fears will be a love dream . His speech is an exercise in minimizing , in making small . One reason why J. R. R. Tolkien used to find A Midsummer Night's Dream ...
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... dream that there is a badger in the refrigerator this is unreal because there is nothing in the refrigerator but stale croissants - but real in that people actually have fan- cies , do dream : I really did have that vivid dream about ...
... dream that there is a badger in the refrigerator this is unreal because there is nothing in the refrigerator but stale croissants - but real in that people actually have fan- cies , do dream : I really did have that vivid dream about ...
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... dream . ( 2 Henry IV , V.v.49-51 ) We shall come later to the place where Cleopatra , looking back , describes her love - vision of Antony as a dream inwardly stronger than common experience . The dream of the moonstruck lovers in a ...
... dream . ( 2 Henry IV , V.v.49-51 ) We shall come later to the place where Cleopatra , looking back , describes her love - vision of Antony as a dream inwardly stronger than common experience . The dream of the moonstruck lovers in a ...
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To the Death of Marlowe | 25 |
Learning Not to Run | 87 |
The Major Histories | 133 |
Urheberrecht | |
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