Paradox in Shakespeare's Tragicomedies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradox in Shakespeare's Tragicomedies write by Seamus Gilson. This book was released on 2013. Paradox in Shakespeare's Tragicomedies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox
Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox write by Dr Peter G Platt. This book was released on 2013-04-28. Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring Shakespeare's intellectual interest in placing both characters and audiences in a state of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt, this book interrogates the use of paradox in Shakespeare's plays and in performance. By adopting this discourse-one in which opposites can co-exist and perspectives can be altered, and one that asks accepted opinions, beliefs, and truths to be reconsidered-Shakespeare used paradox to question love, gender, knowledge, and truth from multiple perspectives. Committed to situating literature within the larger culture, Peter Platt begins by examining the Renaissance culture of paradox in both the classical and Christian traditions. He then looks at selected plays in terms of paradox, including the geographical site of Venice in Othello and The Merchant of Venice, and equity law in The Comedy of Errors, Merchant, and Measure for Measure. Platt also considers the paradoxes of theater and live performance that were central to Shakespearean drama, such as the duality of the player, the boy-actor and gender, and the play/audience relationship in the Henriad, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. In showing that Shakespeare's plays create and are created by a culture of paradox, Platt offers an exciting and innovative investigation of Shakespeare's cognitive and affective power over his audience.
The Paradox of Tragedy
The Paradox of Tragedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Paradox of Tragedy write by D.D. Raphael. This book was released on 2021-12-24. The Paradox of Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1960, The Paradox of Tragedy raises the fundamental question, why do we enjoy tragic drama with its themes of death and disaster? Aristotle’s theory of catharsis is still widely accepted as a satisfactory explanation of this paradox. In the first of its two connected essays, D.D. Raphael argues that Aristotle’s account of tragic emotions is distorted by a faulty psychology and fails to solve the problem. Raphael offers instead a new theory of Tragedy, as a conflict between two forms of the sublime, in which the sublimity of human heroism is exalted above the sublimity of overwhelming power. The spirit of the Tragedy is liable to conflict with doctrines of Biblical theology, and the difficulties of fusing the two are explored with illustrations from Greek, Biblical, English, and French literature. The second essay discusses the wider topic of philosophical drama, considering in what sense tragic and other forms of serious drama may be called philosophical, and also pointing out the dramatic shape of much of Plato’s philosophy. In this discussion, the question of religious Tragedy reappears in a different perspective. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of philosophy in general and political philosophy in particular.
The Comic Matrix of Shakespeare's Tragedies
The Comic Matrix of Shakespeare's Tragedies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Comic Matrix of Shakespeare's Tragedies write by Susan Snyder. This book was released on 2019-01-29. The Comic Matrix of Shakespeare's Tragedies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a single play, Susan Snyder seeks a more comprehensive understanding of how Shakespeare used the conventions, structures, and assumptions of comedy in his tragic writing. She argues that Shakespeare's early mastery of romantic comedy deeply influenced his tragedies both in dramaturgy and in the expression and development of his tragic vision. From this perspective she sheds new light on Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. The author shows Shakespeare's tragic vision evolving as he moves through three possibilities: comedy and tragedy functioning first as polar opposites, later as two sides of the same coin, and finally as two elements in a single compound. In the four plays examined here, Professor Snyder finds that traditional comic structures and assumptions operate in several ways to shape the tragedy: they set up expectations which when proven false reinforce the movement into tragic inevitability; they underline tragic awareness by a pointed irrelevance; they establish a point of departure for tragedy when comedy's happy assumptions reveal their paradoxical "shadow" side; and they become part of the tragedy itself when the comic elements threaten the tragic hero with insignificance and absurdity. Susan Snyder is Professor of English at Swarthmore College. Originally published in 1979. 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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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.
Crooked Eclipses - Shakespeare's Tragedies
Crooked Eclipses - Shakespeare's Tragedies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crooked Eclipses - Shakespeare's Tragedies write by P. D. Deshpande. This book was released on 2022-09-02. Crooked Eclipses - Shakespeare's Tragedies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. About the Book: In this book, Mr. P. D. Deshpande shows how the protagonists of Shakespeare's tragedies ultimately fall prey to the ‘Crooked Eclipses’ of a rapidly moving chain of events, which are mostly brought upon by their own actions, guided by the peculiar complexity of their mind and their absurdities. At the same time, he shows how the greatness, sublimity and also imperfection of human life shines through the characters like Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, etc. About the Author: Mr. P. D. Deshpande is a renowned writer and poet in Marathi language. He has 16 (sixteen) published books to his credit which have been appreciated by the common readers as well as critics. He has devoted almost all his life to bring the works of William Shakespeare in Marathi language for the common readers and that has made him to translate in 'Free Verse' form all the sonnets of Shakespeare, and his plays like The Tempest, Hamlet, Coriolanus, Macbeth etc. in Marathi language. He has also written many articles about Shakespeare's life and plays in renowned periodicals. His magnum opus is a novel about Shakespeare's life in two volumes, written after meticulous research.
