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Hamlet versus Lear

Name: Hamlet versus Lear
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521342926
Price: 123.43 EUR
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Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art

Autor: R. A. Foakes

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Väzba: Pevná

Vydavateľ: Cambridge University Press

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This book focuses on the two plays of Shakespeare that have generally contended for the title of 'gr...

Informácie o knihe

Autor

R. A. Foakes

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

1993

Stránok

276

EAN

9780521342926

ISBN

0521342929

Enbook ID

02028023

Vydavateľ

Cambridge University Press

Hmotnosť

495

Rozmery

156 x 230 x 25

Kompletný popis

This book focuses on the two plays of Shakespeare that have generally contended for the title of 'greatest' among his works. Hamlet remained a focal point of reference until about 1960, when it was displaced by King Lear, a play which at the same time ceased to be perceived as a play of redemption and became a play of despair. Foakes attempts to explain these shifts by analysing the reception of the plays since about 1800, an analysis which necessarily engages with the politics of the plays and the politics of criticism. Recent critical theorising has destabilised the texts and undermined the notion of 'greatness' or any consideration of the plays as works of art. Foakes takes issue with such theories and reconsiders textual revisions, in order to argue for the integrity of the plays as reading texts, and to recover a flexible sense of their artistry in relation to meaning. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of Shakespeare and to theatre-goers.