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Shakespeare the Historian
Paola Pugliatti
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Hardback. This enquiry into the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories assumes that Shakespeare's staging of English history helped to shape a new historiographical outlook. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 505.
In a major reassessment of Shakespeare's dominant dramatic genre, Paola Pugliatti explores the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories. Her main assumption is that Shakespeare's staging of English history helped to shape a new historiography. In particular, multi-perspectivism in the treatment of political issues produced a problem-oriented kind of historical perspective. This exploited the opportunities offered by the theatrical medium, and inaugurated a drama which portrayed history as a critical outlook on a world of problems and retrospective possibilities, rather than as unconditional belief in, or even worship of, a world of facts.
In a major reassessment of Shakespeare's dominant dramatic genre, Paola Pugliatti explores the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories. Her main assumption is that Shakespeare's staging of English history helped to shape a new historiography. In particular, multi-perspectivism in the treatment of political issues produced a problem-oriented kind of historical perspective. This exploited the opportunities offered by the theatrical medium, and inaugurated a drama which portrayed history as a critical outlook on a world of problems and retrospective possibilities, rather than as unconditional belief in, or even worship of, a world of facts.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Number of Pages
265
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333633298
SKU
V9780333633298
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About Paola Pugliatti
PAOLA PUGLIATTI is Professor of English at the University of Florence. She was previously Chair of English at the University of Pisa, and has taught at Bologna and at the University of Messina. She has written extensively on the metaphysical poets, Shakespeare, Joyce and modernism, the theory of the novel and literary genres. In 1993 she was appointed member of ... Read more
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