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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... kind of dark lake , which we are all afraid of falling into ; the lake of unorganized experience , in which the only certain thing is eventual extinction . The fear is twofold : the fear of confusion , and the fear of time . An instinct ...
... kind of dark lake , which we are all afraid of falling into ; the lake of unorganized experience , in which the only certain thing is eventual extinction . The fear is twofold : the fear of confusion , and the fear of time . An instinct ...
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... kind of victory for all . There may be something rather facile about the ending harmony in the middle comedies ( I shall argue that Shakespeare thought so ) , but there is nothing facile about the victory in the last plays - at least ...
... kind of victory for all . There may be something rather facile about the ending harmony in the middle comedies ( I shall argue that Shakespeare thought so ) , but there is nothing facile about the victory in the last plays - at least ...
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... kind of magic in the play's power to soften the shock of the surrender of authority is not to be denied . Critics who consider the last plays to be allegories of reunion and restoration in a happy after - life have certainly fallen ...
... kind of magic in the play's power to soften the shock of the surrender of authority is not to be denied . Critics who consider the last plays to be allegories of reunion and restoration in a happy after - life have certainly fallen ...
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... kind of formula for living - or rather a formula for seeing our own lives . The gap exists , however : art turns against art , proclaims its own dissolution , insists that its function is not to release men from the dark lake but to ...
... kind of formula for living - or rather a formula for seeing our own lives . The gap exists , however : art turns against art , proclaims its own dissolution , insists that its function is not to release men from the dark lake but to ...
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... kind of relief . The perpetual movement of man towards what is coherent and pleasing , Swift called madness . He was aware , if anyone was , of the dark lake , and it was for him not a figment of our fear , but reality ; he thought that ...
... kind of relief . The perpetual movement of man towards what is coherent and pleasing , Swift called madness . He was aware , if anyone was , of the dark lake , and it was for him not a figment of our fear , but reality ; he thought that ...
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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