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Shakespeare's Tragic Imagination
Nicholas Grene
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Description for Shakespeare's Tragic Imagination
Paperback. Shows the inter-relationship of all nine plays written in Shakespeare's main tragic period. Tracing through a dialectic between two different modes of imagining, the author analyzes how in subsequent plays related themes and situations are dramatized in both sacred and secular worlds. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 405.
The world of Macbeth, with its absolutes of good and evil, seems very remote from the shifting perspectives of Antony and Cleopatra, or the psychological and political realities of Coriolanus. Yet all three plays share similar thematic concerns and preoccupations: the relations of power to legitimating authority, for instance, or of male and female roles in the imagination of (male) heoric endeavour. In this acclaimed study, Nicholas Grene shows how all nine plays written in Shakespeare's main tragic period display this combination of strikingly different milieu balanced by thematic interrelationships. Taking the English history play as his starting point, he ... Read more
The world of Macbeth, with its absolutes of good and evil, seems very remote from the shifting perspectives of Antony and Cleopatra, or the psychological and political realities of Coriolanus. Yet all three plays share similar thematic concerns and preoccupations: the relations of power to legitimating authority, for instance, or of male and female roles in the imagination of (male) heoric endeavour. In this acclaimed study, Nicholas Grene shows how all nine plays written in Shakespeare's main tragic period display this combination of strikingly different milieu balanced by thematic interrelationships. Taking the English history play as his starting point, he ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
Number of Pages
309
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333668641
SKU
V9780333668641
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About Nicholas Grene
NICHOLAS GRENE is Associate Professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin. Amongst his previous publications are Synge: a Critical Study of the Plays, Shakespeare, Jonson, Molière: the Comic Contract and Bernard Shaw: a Critical View. He has edited J.M. Synge's The Well of the Saints and co-edited Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Irish Poetry (with Terence Brown) and Shaw, Lady Gregory ... Read more
Reviews for Shakespeare's Tragic Imagination
'The principal merit of the book resides in its admixture of sustained close reading with larger reflection on the implications of the Renaissance.' - Jonathan Bate, Times Literary Supplement 'Provides a series of readable accounts of the plays written in accessible language...' - Shakespeare Survey 'Recommended.' - Choice