Stealing the Story - Shakespeare s Self Conscious Use of Mimetic Tradition in Tragedies

Zusammenfassung Shakespeare's plays investigate the implications of using the mimetic process - a process that invents by redefining personal and collective identities and re-establishing mythic representation, references, and allusions. This book focuses on this process. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Mimesis, Tragedy and NarrativeChapter 2: Shakespeare's Use of MimesisChapter 3: Political Reformation in The Tragedy of King Richard the SecondChapter 4: The Ethical Realm of MacbethChapter 5: The Breakdown of Representation and the Emergence of the Divided Self in HamletChapter 6: The Myth of Centrality in Antony and CleopatraChapter 7: Epistemological Doubt in OthelloChapter 8: The Birth of the Totalitarian State in King Lear

Product details

• Authors: Ava Zilberfain, Zilberfain Ava
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2007
• EAN: 9780826417367
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-1736-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean