Shakespeare and the Idea of the Book

Capa
OUP Oxford, 29/03/2007 - 224 páginas
The 'book' - both material and metaphoric - is strewn throughout Shakespeare's plays: it is held by Hamlet as he turns through revenge to madness; buried deep in the mudded ooze by Prospero when he has shaken out his art like music and violence; it is forced by Richard II to withstand the mortality of deposition, fetishised by lovers, tormented by pedagogues, lost by kings, written by the alienated, and hung about war with the blood of lost voices. The 'book' begins and ends Shakespeare's dramatic career as change itself, standing the distance between violence and hope, between holding and losing. Shakespeare and the Idea of the Book is about the book in Shakespeare's plays. Focusing on seven plays, not only for the chronology and range they present, but also for their particular relationship to the book - whether it is political or humanist, cognitive or illusory, satirical or sexual, spiritual or secular, social or subjective - Scott argues that the book on stage, its literal and semantic presence, offers one of the most articulate and developed hermeneutic tools available for the study of early modern English culture.
 

Índice

Give me that glass and therein will I read
1
The Book in Performance in Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline
26
Teaching Perversion and Subversion in The Taming of the Shrew and Loves Laboursx Lost
57
Word Image and the Reformation of the Self in Richard II
102
Forgetting and Remembering in Hamlet
130
The Tempest and the Book of Illusions
157
We turnd oer many books together
187
Bibliography
195
Index
213
Direitos de autor

Outras edições - Ver tudo

Palavras e frases frequentes

Acerca do autor (2007)

Charlotte Scott is a Lecturer in Shakespeare at Goldsmiths College, The University of London.

Informação bibliográfica