Hazarding All - Shakespeare and the Drama of Consciousness

Demonstrates how theatre and theatricalisation serve as the indispensable means for creating a kind of consciousness that exits as an unmediated encounter with actuality.

About the author

Sanford Budick is Professor of English at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he founded the Center for Literary Studies. He was formerly Professor of English at Cornell University. He has published six monographs, two of which won the Hanford Award (for best book) of the Milton Society; edited three collections of essays on key issues in literary studies (one with Geoffrey Hartman, two with Wolfgang Iser); and been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fellowship of the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities

Summary

Demonstrates how theatre and theatricalisation serve as the indispensable means for creating a kind of consciousness that exits as an unmediated encounter with actuality.

Product details

• Authors: Sanford Budick, BUDICK SANFORD
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781474493161
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-9316-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy; Edinburgh Critical Studies in
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day