Shakespeare's Poetics

Klappentext This book tackles the topic of how Shakespeare viewed his own craft and creativity. Zusammenfassung This 1986 book tackles the topic of how Shakespeare viewed his own craft and creativity. The author charts all its available aspects! and concludes that Shakespeare's idea of poetics occupied a place among contemporary theories which was surprisingly advanced! differing widely from mainstream Renaissance criticism and falling in line with the foremost thinking of the age. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Poet's Craft and the Art of Drama: 1. Shakespeare, poet of nature; 2. Acting and drama; 3. Shakespeare and his audience; Part II. Language, Creativity, Myth, Art, and Bacon: 4. Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Bacon; 5. The dismantling of essentialist discourse; 6. The language of poetry; 7. The poetic imagination; 8. Mythopoetics; 9. Time's argument, or art and nature; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Faas Ekbert, Ekbert Faas
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521134873
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13487-3
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean