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Shakespeare And The Reason
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Author : Terence Hawkes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-11
Shakespeare And The Reason written by Terence Hawkes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
'Mr Hawkes is a good critic, oriented towards history of ideas. He operates on the formula that Shakespeare was interested in the available distinctions between discursive and intuitive reason, and disliked a growing tendency for the first to be thought of as manly and the second effeminate. One sees how this action-contemplation polarity works, in Hamlet for instance, and Mr Hawkes thinks the kind of choices forced on tragic heroes can be better understood in terms of it.' Frank Kermode, New Statesman. In the seven plays on which the book concentrates, Terence Hawkes finds Shakespeare investigating the operation of two opposed forms of reason, and constructing dramatic metaphors such as the opposition between appearance and reality, or that between true 'manliness' and its false counterpart, which express to the full the tragic nature of the situation.
Shakespeare And The Reason
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Author : Terence Hawkes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-11
Shakespeare And The Reason written by Terence Hawkes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
'Mr Hawkes is a good critic, oriented towards history of ideas. He operates on the formula that Shakespeare was interested in the available distinctions between discursive and intuitive reason, and disliked a growing tendency for the first to be thought of as manly and the second effeminate. One sees how this action-contemplation polarity works, in Hamlet for instance, and Mr Hawkes thinks the kind of choices forced on tragic heroes can be better understood in terms of it.' Frank Kermode, New Statesman. In the seven plays on which the book concentrates, Terence Hawkes finds Shakespeare investigating the operation of two opposed forms of reason, and constructing dramatic metaphors such as the opposition between appearance and reality, or that between true 'manliness' and its false counterpart, which express to the full the tragic nature of the situation.
Shakespeare And The Reason A Study Of The Tragedies And The Problem Plays By Terence Hawkes
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Author : Terence Hawkes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Shakespeare And The Reason A Study Of The Tragedies And The Problem Plays By Terence Hawkes written by Terence Hawkes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.
Shakespeare And Language Reason Eloquence And Artifice In The Renaissance
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Author : Jonathan Hope
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-26
Shakespeare And Language Reason Eloquence And Artifice In The Renaissance written by Jonathan Hope and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
'Much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to: in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.' Porter, Macbeth, II i. Why would Elizabethan audiences find Shakespeare's Porter in Macbeth so funny? And what exactly is meant by the name the 'Weird' Sisters? Jonathan Hope, in a comprehensive and fascinating study, looks at how the concept of words meant something entirely different to Elizabethan audiences than they do to us today. In Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance, he traces the ideas about language that separate us from Shakespeare. Our understanding of 'words', and how they get their meanings, based on a stable spelling system and dictionary definitions, simply does not hold. Language in the Renaissance was speech rather than writing - for most writers at the time, a 'word' was by definition a collection of sounds, not letters - and the consequences of this run deep. They explain our culture's inability to appreciate Shakespeare's wordplay, and suggest that a rift opened up in the seventeenth century as language came to be regarded as essentially 'written'. The book also considers the visual iconography of language in the Renaissance, the influence of the rhetorical tradition, the extent to which Shakespeare's late style is driven by a desire to increase the subjective content of the text, and new ways of studying Shakespeare's language using computers. As such it will be of great interest to all serious students and teachers of Shakespeare. Despite the complexity of its subject matter, the book is accessibly written with an undergraduate readership in mind.
Reason Diminished
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Author : Peter G. Platt
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1997-01-01
Reason Diminished written by Peter G. Platt and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reason Diminished examines ?the power that wonder wields over reason in [Shakespeare?s] late plays, both philosophically and dramaturgically.? Peter Platt posits that, in these famous plays, wonder and the marvelous are assigned preeminent positions over reason and order. In fact, Platt argues that the marvelous played a crucial role in Renaissance culture as a whole. ø The book opens by surveying theories of wonder from Aristotle?s Poetics and Metaphysics through the writings of Renaissance theorists. A crucial chapter examines the many ways that the Renaissance attempted to bring the marvelous to bear on the world around it. The next two chapters look at the tension between realism and the marvelous in Elizabethan fiction and the theatrical tradition of the masque. ø Part of the book examines the role of wonder and the marvelous in Shakespeare?s ?romances?: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter?s Tale, and The Tempest. ?Shakespeare?s romances,? writes Platt, ?represent various experiments with the marvelous.? Platt argues that ?late Shakespeare . . . invites the spectators to engage in?and in some cases to shape?the marvels on the stage before them.? ø A persuasive and resourceful study of some of Shakespeare?s most celebrated works, Reason Diminished will add significantly to the ongoing reassessment of Shakespeare?s plays and the world in which they took shape.
Noble In Reason Infinite In Faculty
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Author : Jane Francesca Wright
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-04-19
Noble In Reason Infinite In Faculty written by Jane Francesca Wright and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
SHAKESPEARE IS FOR EVERYONE What was Hamlet's religion? Why did Othello believe Iago? Was Lear really more sinned against than sinning? Do you know a little about William Shakespeare - his characters, plots and language - but want to enjoy and appreciate his work more? Do you think Shakespeare is difficult or daunting, or just not for you? If so - 'O, let my book be then the eloquence...' to show you how wonderful and inspiring Shakespeare truly is. Thought-provoking and provocative about what Shakespeare wrote and why, 'Noble In Reason, Infinite In Faculty' explores the major themes and experiences of his life and times: religion and beliefs; kingship and rule; love and desire; and family bonds and relationships. His views on these subjects found a sublime voice in his work: "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty" - are Hamlet's words that could easily describe his own creator. Shakespeare is for everyone - because everyone is in his plays and poems, just as much today as when he wrote them four centuries ago. William Shakespeare is perennially popular, but the 450th anniversary of his birth in 2014, and the 400th anniversary of his death in 2016, have both lead to an unprecedented interest in his life and works. There are many people with a little knowledge of Shakespeare who would like to know more - perhaps to improve their understanding and enjoyment before they go to a performance. 'Noble In Reason, Infinite In Faculty' offers an insight into the major themes the audience or reader will encounter in Shakespeare, put into the context in which they were written and first performed. 'Noble In Reason, Infinite In Faculty' aims to show how Shakespeare is accessible to, and enjoyable for everyone, and it employs a liberal use of quotations throughout to highlight the beauty and power of Shakespeare's language and wordplay. Each chapter can be read as a stand-alone reference to its particular topic; all explore plot, character development, language and literary devices used, and engage the reader into thinking in more depth about what they have seen on stage and read on the page. Bridging the gap between books on Shakespeare for complete beginners, and highly academic titles, 'Noble In Mind, Infinite In Faculty' has a smooth narrative flow, is written in clear language, and eschews the dryness and overly-technical approach of many academic literary critiques. This above all - 'Noble In Reason, Infinite In Faculty' aims to show and celebrate the piece of work that is William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare In The Present
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Author : Terence Hawkes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
Shakespeare In The Present written by Terence Hawkes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shakespeare in the Present is a stunning collection of essays by Terence Hawkes, which engage with, explain, and explore 'presentism'. Presentism is a critical manoeuvre which uses relevant aspects of the contemporary as a crucial trigger for its investigations. It deliberately begins with the material present and lets that set the interrogative agenda. This book suggests ways in which its principles may be applied to aspects of Shakespeare's plays. Hawkes concentrates on two main areas in which Presentism impacts on the study of Shakespeare. The first is the concept of 'devolution' in British politics. The second is presentism's commitment to a reversal of conceptual hierarchies such as primary/secondary and past/present, and the interaction between performance and reference. The result is to sophisticate and expand our notion of performing and to refocus interest on what the early modern theatre meant by the activity it termed 'playing'.
Excitements Of Reason
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Author : Daniella Jancsó
language : en
Publisher: Universitatsverlag C. Winter
Release Date : 2007
Excitements Of Reason written by Daniella Jancsó and has been published by Universitatsverlag C. Winter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Reasoning categories.
Examines Much ado about nothing, Hamlet, Macbeth, and The tempest.
Limited Shakespeare
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Author : Julián Jiménez Heffernan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-05-01
Limited Shakespeare written by Julián Jiménez Heffernan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shakespeare’s poetic-dramatic worlds are inescapably limited. There is always, in his poems and plays, a force (a contingent drive, a pre-textual undertow, a rational-critical momentum, an ironic stance, the deflections of error) coercing plot and meaning to their end. By examining the work of limits in the sonnets and in five of his plays, this book seeks not only to highlight the poet’s steadfast commitment to critical rationality. It also aims to plead a case of hermeneutic continence. Present-day appraisals of Shakespeare’s world-making and meaning-projecting potential are often overruled by a neo-romantic and phenomenological celebration of plenty. This pre-critical tendency unwittingly obtains epistemic legitimation from philosophical quarters inspired by Alain Badiou’s derisive rejection of "the pathos of finitude". But finitude is much more than a modish, neo-existentialist, watchword. It is what is left of ontology when reason is done. And cool reason was already at work before Kant. In accounting for the way in which Shakespeare places limits to life (Romeo and Juliet), to experience (The Tempest), to love (the Sonnets), to time (Macbeth), to the world (Hamlet) and to knowledge (Othello), Limited Shakespeare: The Reason of Finitude aims to underscore the deeply mediated dimension of Shakespearean experience, always over-determined by the twin forces of contingency and textual determinism, and his meta-rational and virtually ironic taste for irrational, accidental, and error-driven limits (bonds, bounds, deaths).
Reason Not
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Author : Omry Smith
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2009
Reason Not written by Omry Smith and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Emotions in literature categories.
This theoretical study guides the reader through some of Shakespeare's most emotionally turbulent dramatic worlds, offering a close examination of the fascinating emotional rhetoric employed by several key characters. These characters manipulate others - and sometimes even themselves - using a device broadly known in the terminology of rhetoric as 'emotional appeal'. Although Shakespeare displays immense interest in the human passions and makes frequent use of the tools of classical rhetoric, this study presents the first systematic inquiry into the emotional component of rhetoric in his drama. The book also offers the reader a broad perspective on Shakespearean drama by highlighting diverse characters who embody the human tendency to worship reason and rationalise reality. In contrast to those 'emotionally intelligent' characters who acknowledge the crucial power of emotion in life and their inability to neutralise it, other characters deny this reality. Ironically, it is precisely those who deny emotion and obsessively seek rationality that eventually fall victim to their own intense passion, in some cases in response to emotional appeals from others.