UID:
almahu_9949385272602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781003180173
,
1003180175
,
9781000407884
,
1000407888
,
1000407837
,
9781000407839
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in Shakespeare
Content:
"Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answer to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity. This volume explores how Shakespeare generates a sublime mood or ethos which predisposes audiences intellectually and emotionally for the full experience of sublime pathos, explored in Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos. It examines Shakespeare's invention of sublime matter, his exploitation of the special characteristics of the Elizabethan stage, and his dramaturgical and formal simulacra of absolute space and time. In the process, it considers Shakespeare's conception of the universe and man's place in it and uncovers the epistemological and existential implications of key aspects of his art. As the argument unfolds, a case is made for a trans-historically baroque Shakespeare whose "bastard art" enables the dramatic restoration of an original innocence where ignorance really is bliss. Taken together, Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos and Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos show how Shakespearean drama integrates matter and spirit on hierarchical planes of cognition and argue that, ultimately, his is an immanent sublimity of the here-and-now enfolding a transcendence which may be imagined, simulated or evoked, but never achieved"--
Note:
On the sublime -- "Brightest heaven of invention" : sublime topics -- "The fairy way of writing" : sublime matter -- "Twixt heaven and earth" : sublime scenography -- Divine mechanisms : sublime form and shape -- Bastard art, innocent experience -- Conclusions: Shakespeare's sublime ethos.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Sell, Jonathan P. A. Shakespeare's sublime ethos New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9781032018140
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003180173
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003180173
