Big-Time Shakespeare

AvMichael D. Bristol

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

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Beskrivning

Shakespeare has made the big time. No less than the Beatles or Liberace, Elvis Presley or Mick Jagger, Shakespeare is big-time in the idiomatic sense of cultural success and widespread notoriety. Not only has he achieved canonical status, Shakespeare is a contemporary celebrity. His artistic distinction and aptitude for controversy constantly keeps his name in the public eye.Bristol debates Shakespeare's cultural authority, and clarifies the semantics of his name in our culture. Big-Time Shakespeare suggests his plays represent the pathos of our civilisation with extraordinary force and clarity. Shakespeare's contradictory understanding of the social and cultural past is also examined with close analysis of The Winter's Tale, Othello, and Hamlet.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-09-12
Mått:138 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415060165

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'A timely and important book.' - Times Higher Education Supplement"sharp and funny...takes readers on an intellectually thrilling ride...If readers can recognise Bristol's gift, they'll receive cultural philosophy and criticism at its best...Not all critics reach this big-time understanding. In this, Bristol...not only follows Shakespeare, he succeeds him." - The Times Literary Supplement' ... lively study ...' - The Observer

Innehållsförteckning

Preface, Acknowledgements, Part I: The supply side of culture, 1. Introduction, 2. The bias of the world, 3. Shakespearean technologies, 4. Crying all the way to the bank, Part II The pathos of Western modernity, 5. Re-introduction: Essential Shakespeare, 6. Social time in The Winter's Tale , 7. Race and the comedy of abjection in Othello , 8. Calvin and Hobbes, or what was democracy, References. Index.