Late Shakespeare : A New World of Words Paperback / softback
by Simon (Lecturer in English, Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool) Palfrey
Part of the Oxford English Monographs series
Paperback / softback
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Shakespeare's late plays are usually seen in terms of courtliness and escapism.
But the critical tradition has been too decorous. Neither neo-Christian pieties nor high-political allegory can account for the works' audacity and surprise, or the popular investment in both their form and meaning.
Post-structuralist and historicist approaches show the indeterminacy and materiality of language, but rarely identify how particular figures (words and characters) capture and energize contested history.
Recent criticism tends to put a pre-emptive 'master-paradigm' above all else; a more sinuous, minutely attentive critical vocabulary is needed to apprehend Shakespeare's turbulent, precise, teeming metaphorical discourse.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:310 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:06/01/2000
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- ISBN:9780198186892
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:310 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:06/01/2000
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- ISBN:9780198186892
