UID:
almafu_9960119496902883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 262 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-87286-0
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0-511-51886-2
Content:
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.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Hamlet and Hamletism.
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Hamlet privatized and politicized ;
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Hamlet and Hamletism ;
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Hamlet in the modern world ;
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Hamlet our contemporary --
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The reception of King Lear.
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King Lear and redemption ;
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King Lear and despair ;
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King Lear destabilized ;
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King Lear historicized --
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Plays and texts.
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Processing Shakespeare ;
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Scripts, play-texts, literature ;
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Texts of Hamlet ;
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Texts of King Lear --
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Hamlet, King Lear and art.
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Let's restate the problem ;
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Shakespeare under attack ;
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Inward illusion ;
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Knowledge, meaning, artistic form --
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A design for Hamlet.
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Hamlet Senior ;
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Gertrude and Ophelia ;
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Claudius ;
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Hamlet --
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A shaping for King Lear.
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Division ;
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Expulsion ;
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Confusion ;
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War ;
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The overall design.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-60705-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-34292-9
Language:
English
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511518867
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