Screen LibraryThe Shakespeare project and ensuing essays /
For twenty-plus years on a small Midwestern campus, Dr. Lewis has directed The Shakespeare Project, a seminar scrutinizing four-six plays per semester with a cadre of accompanying sonnets. Master a method of reading the Bard through focus on a small set vis-à-vis scattershot survey, his syllabi prom...
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Cambridge Scholars,
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| Publisher Address: | Newcastle upon Tyne : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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For twenty-plus years on a small Midwestern campus, Dr. Lewis has directed The Shakespeare Project, a seminar scrutinizing four-six plays per semester with a cadre of accompanying sonnets. Master a method of reading the Bard through focus on a small set vis-à-vis scattershot survey, his syllabi promise, and one not only could, but would want to read Shakespeare - "not for an age, but for all time" (Ben Jonson) - all one's life. The Bard's idiom, through complex, proves eminently comprehensive, as have observed such scholars as Kermode, Vendler, Bloom, Garber, Greenblatt, Nuttall, Booth, Eliot, Auden, and others. This book, the harvest of Lewis' endeavor, consists of three parts: the seminar essay-syllabi; a collection of close readings of Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, Henry VIII, Timon, and The Sonnets; and a series of footnotes intended as mini-master essays on minutiae. The Project is grounded on the originary definition of scholarship as studying in school, and offers a revisionary reading of three "minor" characters in Shakespeare's tragedies (Emilia, Albany, Siward), in the process of contending for a sensible coalescence of 'old-fashioned' character criticism with New Critical and Poststructural perspectives. The text also formulates criteria for responsible reading via triple vision - perceiving the work as at once reality, poem, and play - a method forwarded through addressing ethical matters in the works: faith in Hamlet; conscience in Henry VIII; stewardship in Timon of Athens. -- from back cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 265 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index. |
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9781443871594 1443871591 |
| Index Number: | PR2995 |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
| Call Number: | I561.073/L673 |
| Contents: | Part I: Syllabi from sundry Shakespeare projects -- Re-membering things past -- Shakespeare and hardy -- Figures of the fool -- Shakespeare -- i.e., Shakespeare -- Doppelgangers -- The phoenix and turtle -- Part II: Questions on character; Responsibilities of triple vision -- Othello, or Emilia -- Animadversions to Albany -- The adjectival siwards and the cloak of substance -- Entracte -- Hamlet: The embassy of faith -- "To catch the conscience of the king" -- "[A]nd he's a steward [too]" -- Entracte (II) -- "Within [Time's] bending sickle's compass come". |