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Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being
Ted Hughes
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Description for Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being
paperback. Attempts to show Shakespeare's complete works - dramatic and poetic - as a single, tightly-integrated, evolving organism. Identifying Shakespeare's use in two poems of two religious myths, Hughes argues that they provided Shakespeare with templates for every play from "All's Well" to "The Tempest". Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 45. Weight in Grams: 990. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
This critical magnum opus, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an attempt to show the Complete Works - dramatic and poetic - as a single, tightly integrated, evolving organism. Identifying Shakespeare's use of the two most significant religious myths of the archaic world in the poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, Ted Hughes argues that these myths later provided Shakespeare with templates for the construction of every play from All's Well that Ends Well to The Tempest; and that this development, in turn, represented his poetic exploration of conflicts within ... Read more
This critical magnum opus, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an attempt to show the Complete Works - dramatic and poetic - as a single, tightly integrated, evolving organism. Identifying Shakespeare's use of the two most significant religious myths of the archaic world in the poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, Ted Hughes argues that these myths later provided Shakespeare with templates for the construction of every play from All's Well that Ends Well to The Tempest; and that this development, in turn, represented his poetic exploration of conflicts within ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
540
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571166046
SKU
KSG0035803
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid and ... Read more
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