Shakespeare's theory of drama /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kiernan, Pauline
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Aesthetics.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
1500-1699
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Aesthetics, Modern > 16th century.
Aesthetics, Modern > 17th century.
Théâtre anglais > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Théâtre anglais > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Esthétique > 16e siècle.
Esthétique > 17e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
Aesthetics.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Shakespeare and Sidney. Two worlds: the brazen and the golden
  • 3. Shakespeare and Ovid. 'What strained touches rhetoric can lend': poetry metamorphosed in Venus and Adonis and the Sonnets
  • 4. 'In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life': exposing art's sterility. The Rape of Lucrece, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest
  • 5. 'O'er-wrested seeming': dramatic illusion and the repudiation of mimesis. Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet
  • 6. 'Thy registers and thee I both defy': history challenged. Richard III, Henry VIII, Henry V and Richard II
  • 7. Antony and Cleopatra as 'A Defence of Drama'.

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