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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 energise 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. Late Shakespeare: A New World of Words reappraises the origins of authority, language, and decorum, and the prospects for each. Through his portrayal of 'popular' desire-in his rustics, clowns, rogues, slaves, women-Shakespeare presents worlds which explore the meaning of the 'subject', and the potential for effective transformatory agency. Rather than a Jonsonian (or perhaps earlier Shakespearian) verisimilitude, with each person discrete and verifiable, Shakespeare's characters embody metaphor-in-process; like the revamped romance genre itself, they 'take on' surrounding turbulence. The plays show the stormy consequences of hegemonic violence. The subsequent exile to wilderness allows for contingent novelty: new liberties are tested amid the wreckage or recapitulation of old forms. The plays pit possible sources of regeneration (romantic pastoral, semi-populist humanism) against more primal violence and rebelliousness. Finally, the book argues against a conventional sense of the plays' movement towards divinely sanctioned closure; mischief, irony, polysemy remain; romance's political problems are competitive, multiple, and tumescently unpredictable.

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Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: plays & playwrights

• Celý názov: Late Shakespeare
• Podnázov: A New World of Words
• Autor: Simon Palfrey
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Pevná
• Počet strán: 312
• EAN: 9780198186199
• ISBN: 0198186193
• ID: 04522741
• Nakladateľ: Oxford University Press
• Hmotnosť: 550 g
• Rozmery: 220 × 156 × 27 mm
• Dátum vydania: 21. August 1997

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