Shakespeare and the Confines of ArtRoutledge, 11.10.2013 - 184 Seiten First published in 1968. By selective study of certain of the comedies, tragedies and sonnets, Philip Edwards views Shakespeare's work as a whole and explains why his art developed as it did. The work which the author sees Shakespeare striving to create is the perfect fusion of comedy and tragedy and he suggests that we are watching the progress of a mind as acutely conscious as anyone today of the disorder and lack of meaning in the world. Nevertheless, it remains faithful to the possibility that within the imaginable forms of drama there exists that play which will satisfy the basic human need for reassurance, order and control. |
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... human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world ... humanity : these are the ' epic ' and the ' burlesque ' views . In Shakespeare's plays , most of the remarks about the ...
... human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world ... humanity : these are the ' epic ' and the ' burlesque ' views . In Shakespeare's plays , most of the remarks about the ...
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... human had he not , on one and the same day , had faith in his art and scoffed at it too . Though thinkers divide on the value of art , there seems to be less disagreement about the power of art , or about the human craving for it ...
... human had he not , on one and the same day , had faith in his art and scoffed at it too . Though thinkers divide on the value of art , there seems to be less disagreement about the power of art , or about the human craving for it ...
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... human race that we should want to listen to stories about imaginary people , to hang on our walls crude representations of the visible world , or to sing song - cycles about the distant beloved . But there is no doubt about the ...
... human race that we should want to listen to stories about imaginary people , to hang on our walls crude representations of the visible world , or to sing song - cycles about the distant beloved . But there is no doubt about the ...
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... Human contentment takes strange forms , and almost any ordering and explanation is better than none . It is always to some extent a paradox that tragedy should give a kind of relief . The perpetual movement of man towards what is ...
... Human contentment takes strange forms , and almost any ordering and explanation is better than none . It is always to some extent a paradox that tragedy should give a kind of relief . The perpetual movement of man towards what is ...
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... human perceiving . The poetic or secondary imagination is the creation of worlds which model the divinely - created world ( ' nature itself is to a religious observer the art of God ' ) and so explain to man in a symbolic alphabet the ...
... human perceiving . The poetic or secondary imagination is the creation of worlds which model the divinely - created world ( ' nature itself is to a religious observer the art of God ' ) and so explain to man in a symbolic alphabet the ...
Inhalt
1 | |
2 The Sonnets to the Dark Woman | 17 |
3 Loves Labours Lost | 33 |
4 The Abandond Cave | 49 |
5 Romeo and Juliet | 71 |
6 Hamlet | 83 |
7 The Problem Plays i | 95 |
8 The Problem Plays ii | 109 |
9 The Jacobean Tragedies | 121 |
10 Last Plays | 139 |
Conclusion | 161 |
Notes | 163 |
Index | 168 |
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