Shakespeare''s Speculative Art

Informationen zum Autor Maurice A. Hunt Klappentext This is the first book-length analysis of Shakespeare s depiction of specula (mirrors) to reveal the literal and allegorical functions of mirrors in the playwright s art and thought. Adding a new dimension to the plays Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Henry the Fifth, Love s Labor s Lost, A Midsummer Night s Dream, and All s Well That Ends Well, Maurice A. Hunt also references mirrors in a wide range of external sources, from the Bible to demonic practices. Looking at the concept of speculation through its multiple meanings - cognitive, philosophical, hypothetical, and provisional - this original reading suggests Shakespeare as a craftsman so prescient and careful in his art that he was able to criticize the queen and a former patron with such impunity that he could still live as a gentleman. Zusammenfassung This is the first book-length analysis of Shakespeare s depiction of specula (mirrors) to reveal the literal and allegorical functions of mirrors in the playwright s art and thought. Adding a new dimension to the plays Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Henry the Fifth, Love s Labor s Lost, A Midsummer Night s Dream, and All s Well That Ends Well, Maurice A. Hunt also references mirrors in a wide range of external sources, from the Bible to demonic practices. Looking at the concept of speculation through its multiple meanings - cognitive, philosophical, hypothetical, and provisional - this original reading suggests Shakespeare as a craftsman so prescient and careful in his art that he was able to criticize the queen and a former patron with such impunity that he could still live as a gentleman. Inhaltsverzeichnis Speculative Understanding and Ignorance in Troilus and Cressida , Julius Caesar , and Macbeth Holding Up Drama as an 'Ideal' Mirror in Hamlet and The Life of King Henry the Fifth Mirroring Queen Elizabeth in John Lyly's Comedies Mirroring Queen Elizabeth in Love's Labor's Lost A Speculative Political Allegory in A Midsummer Night's Dream Mirroring the Earl of Southampton in All's Well That Ends Well...

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Speculative Understanding and Ignorance in Troilus and Cressida , Julius Caesar , and Macbeth Holding Up Drama as an 'Ideal' Mirror in Hamlet and The Life of King Henry the Fifth Mirroring Queen Elizabeth in John Lyly's Comedies Mirroring Queen Elizabeth in Love's Labor's Lost A Speculative Political Allegory in A Midsummer Night's Dream Mirroring the Earl of Southampton in All's Well That Ends Well

Über den Autor / die Autorin

MAURICE A. HUNT is a Professor of English at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, USA.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: M Hunt, M. Hunt, Maurice Hunt, Maurice A. Hunt, HUNT MAURICE A
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 13.07.2011
• EAN: 9780230116610
• ISBN: 978-0-230-11661-0
• Seiten: 270
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett; Theater, B, Poetry, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Theatre and Performance Arts, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Theatre and Performance Studies, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection