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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Main Authors: Hunt, Maurice A
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230339286
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230116610, 2011.
Carrier Form: 272 p. : 0 ill.
ISBN: 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.