Shakespeare the ThinkerYale University Press, 2007 - 428 Seiten A. D. Nuttall’s study of Shakespeare’s intellectual preoccupations is a literary tour de force and comes to crown the distinguished career of a Shakespeare scholar. Certain questions engross Shakespeare from his early plays to the late romances: the nature of motive, cause, personal identity and relation, the proper status of imagination, ethics and subjectivity, language and its capacity to occlude and to communicate. Yet Shakespeare’s thought, Nuttall demonstrates, is anything but static. The plays keep returning to, modifying, and complicating his creative preoccupations. Nuttall allows us to hear and appreciate the emergent cathedral choir of play speaking to play. By the later stages of Nuttall’s book this choir is nearly overwhelming in its power and dimensions. The author does not limit discussion to moments of crucial intellection but gives himself ample space in which to get at the distinctive essence of each work. Much recent historicist criticism has tended to "flatten” Shakespeare by confining him to the thought-clich s of his time, and this in its turn has led to an implicitly patronizing view of him as unthinkingly racist, sexist, and so on. Nuttall shows us that, on the contrary, Shakespeare proves again and again to be more intelligent and perceptive than his 21st-century readers. This book challenges us to reconsider the relation of great literature to its social and historical matrix. It is also, perhaps, the best guide to Shakespeare’s plays available in English. |
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... ethical judge- ment . But Hamlet has been told by his dead father that Denmark is controlled by the murderer of that father . The notion of being trapped by circumstance in the ogre's castle is not far away . To exclude the ethical from ...
... ethical judge- ment . But Hamlet has been told by his dead father that Denmark is controlled by the murderer of that father . The notion of being trapped by circumstance in the ogre's castle is not far away . To exclude the ethical from ...
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... ethical objectivism . The modern reader or spectator may be thrown , because of a presumption that ethical objectivism is the old - fashioned thing , belong- ing naturally with the Middle Ages . But one can tell already in the Henry VI ...
... ethical objectivism . The modern reader or spectator may be thrown , because of a presumption that ethical objectivism is the old - fashioned thing , belong- ing naturally with the Middle Ages . But one can tell already in the Henry VI ...
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... ethical , not the contractual . What shows in the word " just " is that the scheme deemed contrary to cold justice , the scheme of grace , can lead us , as we move from contract to ethical desert , back to the claim of justice — now ...
... ethical , not the contractual . What shows in the word " just " is that the scheme deemed contrary to cold justice , the scheme of grace , can lead us , as we move from contract to ethical desert , back to the claim of justice — now ...
Inhalt
To the Death of Marlowe | 25 |
Learning Not to Run | 87 |
The Major Histories | 133 |
Urheberrecht | |
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