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Author_Richard Meek
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Chapman's Poem
Chapman’s Poem
Confidence Trick
Dover Cliff
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dramatic mimesis
early modern poetics
Edgar's Description
Edgar’s Description
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Faerie Queene
Folio Text
Gloucester's Death
Gloucester’s Death
Gr Av
Hamlet's Letters
Hamlet’s Letters
Hermione's Statue
Hermione’s Statue
king
King Lear
lear
narrative
Ovids Banquet
performance studies
Play's Final Scene
Player's Speech
Player’s Speech
Play’s Final Scene
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poems
Renaissance literary theory
Sad Sights
Sel
Shakespeare's Dramatic Works
Shakespeare's Narrative Poems
Shakespeare's Poem
Shakespearean Narrative
shakespeares
Shakespeare’s Dramatic Works
Shakespeare’s Narrative Poems
Shakespeare’s Poem
St Thomas Aquinas
tale
Teutsche Academie
Thomas Aquinas
Ut Pictura Poesis
verbal visual representation in drama
visual rhetoric
Winter's Tale
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Winter’s Tale
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Product details
- ISBN 9780754657750
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book examines Shakespeare's fascination with the art of narrative and the visuality of language. Richard Meek complicates our conception of Shakespeare as either a 'man of the theatre' or a 'literary dramatist', suggesting ways in which his works themselves debate the question of text versus performance. Beginning with an exploration of the pictorialism of Shakespeare's narrative poems, the book goes on to examine several moments in Shakespeare's dramatic works when characters break off the action to describe an absent, 'offstage' event, place or work of art. Meek argues that Shakespeare does not simply prioritise drama over other forms of representation, but rather that he repeatedly exploits the interplay between different types of mimesis - narrative, dramatic and pictorial - in order to beguile his audiences and readers. Setting Shakespeare's works in their literary and rhetorical contexts, and engaging with contemporary literary theory, the book offers new readings of Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, Hamlet, King Lear and The Winter's Tale. The book will be of particular relevance to readers interested in the relationship between verbal and visual art, theories of representation and mimesis, Renaissance literary and rhetorical culture, and debates regarding Shakespeare's status as a literary dramatist.
Richard Meek is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Hull, UK
