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Hamlet versus Lear

Name: Hamlet versus Lear
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521342926
Price: 49449 HUF
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Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art

Szerző: R. A. Foakes

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Cambridge University Press

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

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

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

R. A. Foakes

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

1993

oldal

276

EAN

9780521342926

ISBN

0521342929

Enbook ID

02028023

Kiadó

Cambridge University Press

Súly

495

Méretek

156 x 230 x 25

Teljes leírás

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.