Shakespeare, Alchemy and the Creative Imagination - The Sonnets and a Lover''s Complaint

Informationen zum Autor Margaret Healy is Reader in English and Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex. She teaches many aspects of Renaissance literature and is particularly interested in the cultural history of the body and the interfaces among literature, medicine, science and art. She is the author of Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics (2001) and Richard II (1998), and the co-editor of Renaissance Transformations: The Making of English Writing, 1500–1650 (2009). She edits the new British Medical Journal, Medical Humanities. Klappentext Healy demonstrates how Renaissance alchemy shaped Shakespeare's bawdy but spiritual sonnets, transforming our understanding of Shakespeare's art and beliefs. Zusammenfassung Demonstrating how the lost lexicon of fashionable late Renaissance alchemy imbued Shakespeare's bawdy sonnets and A Lover's Complaint with spiritual and political meanings! this book transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's art. Healy provides a crucial new framework for interpreting the playwright's religious beliefs and his 1609 poems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Alchemical contexts; 2. Lovely boy; 3. The Dark Mistress and the art of blackness; 4. A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare; 5. Inner looking, alchemy and the creative imagination; 6. Conclusion: Shakespeare's poetics of love and religious toleration.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Healy, Margaret (University of Sussex) Healy, Margaret Dr Healy, Healy Margaret
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2011
• EAN: 9781107004047
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00404-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean