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Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings.

This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close readings, that a presentist Shakespeare is not an anachronism. Relying on a Brechtian aesthetic of "naive surrealism" as the performative model of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Rourke, James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & amp; Francis, 2011.
Colección:Routledge studies in Shakespeare.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close readings, that a presentist Shakespeare is not an anachronism. Relying on a Brechtian aesthetic of "naive surrealism" as the performative model of the early modern, urban, public theater, James O'Rourke demonstrates how this Brechtian model is able to capture the full range of interplays that could take place between Shakespeare's words, the nonillusionist performance devices of the early modern stage, and the live audiences that shared the ph.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (203 pages).
ISBN:9780203145197
0203145194