Shakespeare's speculative art
This is the first book-length study of Shakespeare's pastoral comedy to explain how the play represents issues and motifs of interest to literate Elizabethan playgoers in these years, as well as speculatively to Shakespeare himself.
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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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This is the first book-length study of Shakespeare's pastoral comedy to explain how the play represents issues and motifs of interest to literate Elizabethan playgoers in these years, as well as speculatively to Shakespeare himself. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230116610, 2011. |
Carrier Form: | 272 p. : 0 ill. |
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9780230116610 9780230339286 : 023033928X : |
CLC: | I561.073 |
Contents: | Speculative Understanding and Ignorance in Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth Holding Up Drama as an 'Ideal' Mirror in Hamlet and The Life of King Henry the Fifth Mirroring Queen Elizabeth in John Lyly's Comedies Mirroring Queen Elizabeth in Love's Labor's Lost A Speculative Political Allegory in A Midsummer Night's Dream Mirroring the Earl of Southampton in All's Well That Ends Well. |