Shakespearean Representation
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A Woman Killed with Kindness
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Absurdity
Aeschylus
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Allegory
Anxiety of influence
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Banquo
Bildungsroman
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Category=DSBD
Category=DSG
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Classicism
Contemptus mundi
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Defamiliarization
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Disenchantment
Domestic tragedy
Edmund (King Lear)
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Euripides
F. L. Lucas
Fortinbras
Gertrude (Hamlet)
Gorboduc
Hamlet
Henriad
High Spirits (musical)
Iago
Irony
King Lear
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Literature
Macduff (Macbeth)
Malvolio
Melodrama
Mercutio
Mimesis
Modernity
Morality play
Negative capability
Odysseus
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Parody
Plautus
Playwright
Poetry
Polonius
Postmodernism
Potboiler
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Prince Hal
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Pyramus and Thisbe
Revenge play
Revenge tragedy
Roderigo
Role-playing
Romanticism
Rosaline
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Satire
Shakespearean tragedy
softlaunch
Soliloquy
Sophocles
Subplot
Superiority (short story)
Termagant
The Faerie Queene
The Revenger's Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy
The Tempest
The White Devil
Theatrum Mundi
Thomas Kyd
Titus Andronicus
Tragedy
Tragic hero
Tragicomedy
Trojan War
William Shakespeare
Product details
- ISBN 9780691642222
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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We are often told that Shakespeare is our contemporary, yet we insist just as often on the Elizabethan quality of his work as it reflects a culture remote from our own. Beginning with this paradox, Howard Felperin explores the question of modernity in literature. He directs his attention toward several older poets and examines Shakespeare in particular to show how literary modernity depends, not on chronological considerations, but on the process of mimesis, or imitation, that art has traditionally claimed for itself. In analyzing Shakespeare's major tragedies, Professor Felperin notes that each carries within it a model of its dramatic prototypes, and therefore requires a conservative response from its interpreters. In the interest of being truer to life than its model, however, each play departs from that model and so requires a Romantic or modernist response as well. The author contends that Shakespeare's meaning arises from this ambivalent relation to the forms of the past. Originally published in 1978.
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