Shakespeare and the Nature of Man

Klappentext Spencer's 1943 book investigates how conflicting Renaissance understandings of human nature are expressed in Shakespeare's works. Zusammenfassung Providing invaluable context to Shakespeare's work! Spencer examines the Renaissance conflict between the ideal picture of man and the given of original sin! and how this is expressed in Shakespeare's plays. This 1943 study demonstrates how this basic conflict underlies the emergence of great Renaissance drama. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Man in nature: the optimistic theory; 2. Man in nature: the Renaissance conflict; 3. The dramatic convention and Shakespeare's early use of it; 4. Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida; 5. Othello and King Lear; 6. Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra; 7. Shakespeare's last plays; 8. Literature and the nature of man; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Theodore Spencer, Spencer Theodore, Spencer Theodore
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.2009
• EAN: 9781108003773
• ISBN: 978-1-108-00377-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama; Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literary studies: general