Screen LibraryShakespeare's living art /
In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking "forms" verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres to the culture from which a writer springs and to his selection and organization of materials, we can understand the processes by which he becomes what he is...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking "forms" verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres to the culture from which a writer springs and to his selection and organization of materials, we can understand the processes by which he becomes what he is, and is enabled to do what he does.She is particularly concerned with uncovering the ways in which Shakespeare used, misused, criticized, re-created, and sometimes revolutionized the received topics and devices of his craft. In this sense, Shakespeare's plays are seen as problem plays, each exploring the problematics of his craft and revealing his assessment of what was problematical. The author has chosen for study topics which connect Shakespeare with the long and rich continental Renaissance, in the hope that in the future Shakespeare might be, like Dante and Cervantes, an essential author in a comparatist's education.Usually a single topic dealing with some formal aspect of a play the use of stereotypes to create a character highly original in stage practice, or the various manipulations of a mode (the pastoral, for example) rich in potentialities is used to try to see in what particular ways Shakespeare shaped works that are still unique.Originally published in 1974.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(382pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400867875 |
| Index Number: | PR2976 |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Note -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Criticism and the Analysis of Craft: Love's Labour's Lost and the Sonnets -- 2. Mel and Sal: Some Problems in Sonnet-Theory -- 3. Othello and the Problematics of Love -- 4. Antony and Cleopatra: The Significance of Style -- 5. Hamlet: Reflections on an Anatomy of Melancholy -- 6. Perspectives on Pastoral: Romance, Comic and Tragic -- 7. "Nature's Above Art in that Respect": Limits of the Pastoral Pattern -- 8. Forms and Their Meanings: "Monumental Mock'ry" -- Epilogue -- Index -- Backmatter. |