Wonder in Shakespeare
Adam Max Cohen
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Description for Wonder in Shakespeare
Hardcover. In the first part of this book, Adam Max Cohen embraces the many meanings of wonder in order to challenge the generic divides between comedy, tragedy, history, and romance and suggests that Shakespeare's primary goal in crafting each of his playworlds was the evocation of one or more varieties of wonder. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
In the first part of this book, Adam Max Cohen embraces the many meanings of wonder in order to challenge the generic divides between comedy, tragedy, history, and romance and suggests that Shakespeare's primary goal in crafting each of his playworlds was the evocation of one or more varieties of wonder.
In the first part of this book, Adam Max Cohen embraces the many meanings of wonder in order to challenge the generic divides between comedy, tragedy, history, and romance and suggests that Shakespeare's primary goal in crafting each of his playworlds was the evocation of one or more varieties of wonder.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230105416
SKU
V9780230105416
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99-15
About Adam Max Cohen
ADAM MAX COHEN earned his PhD from the University of Virginia, USA, and was an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His teaching interests included Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Early Modern Cultural Studies, History of Science, and Technology. He is the author of Shakespeare and Technology: Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions and Technology and the Early Modern Self.
Reviews for Wonder in Shakespeare
'The final work in a too brief career, Adam Max Cohen's Wonder in Shakespeare is a kind of seminar on Shakespeare's multiple senses of 'wonder': prodigies, resurrections, and Miranda things that should be looked at, including that young castaway in The Tempest. This is also a book about limits the limits of language and the senses and how Shakespeare's plays ... Read more