Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192872710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192872710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Rome and the Spirit of Caesar
Author: Jan H. BlitsPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 149852527X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Rome and the Spirit of Caesar, providing a fresh interpretation of Julius Caesar, is a thorough examination of Shakespeare’s presentation of the final throes of republican Rome’s political decay and demise and the rise of Caesarism. As in his previous studies of Shakespeare’s plays, Blits, pursuing his distinctive approach, follows Caesar through, scene by scene, speech by speech, line by line, reaching his conclusions by closely examining Shakespeare’s text. Approaching the play as a coherent whole, he examines the whole in the light of its parts and the parts in the light of the whole. Since each presupposes the other, he considers the whole and its parts together. He carefully relates the play’s details to its major themes and grounds the themes in, and supports them by, the details. While intruding no literary theory on the play, Blits brings out the historical and perennial political substance that Shakespeare deliberately put into it. He shows that Caesar is a work of historical poetry, shaped by Shakespeare’s mastery of the Roman histories and the Hellenistic philosophies bearing directly on his subject. Topics include the love of honor and fame, heroic ambition and glory, virtue and honor, civic strife, political murder, the role of political oratory, public versus private interests, Caesarism, the decay of liberty, loyalty, demagoguery, luxury, spiritedness, superstition, Stoicism and Epicureanism, manliness, friendship, moral intimidation, political imprudence, foreign and civil war, universal empire, and the advent of Christianity.
Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature
Author: Knapp James A. KnappPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474457134
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Examines literary engagement with immateriality since the 'material turn' in early modern studiesProvides six case studies of works by Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert, offering new readings of important literary texts of the English Renaissance alongside detailed chapters outlining attitudes towards immateriality in works of natural philosophy, medicine, and theologyEmploys an innovative organization around three major areas in which problem of immaterial was particularly pitched: Ontology, Theology, and Psychology (or Being, Believing, and Thinking)Includes wide-ranging references to early modern literary, philosophical, and theological textsDemonstrates how innovations in natural philosophy influenced thought about the natural world and how it was portrayed in literatureEngages with current early modern scholarship in the areas of material culture, cognitive literary studies, and phenomenologyImmateriality and Early Modern English Literature explores how early modern writers responded to rapidly shifting ideas about the interrelation of their natural and spiritual worlds. It provides six case studies of works by Shakespeare, Donne and Herbert, offering new readings of important literary texts of the English Renaissance alongside detailed chapters outlining attitudes towards immateriality in works of natural philosophy, medicine and theology. Building on the importance of addressing material culture in order to understand early modern literature, Knapp demonstrates how the literary imagination was shaped by changing attitudes toward the immaterial realm.
King Lear
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aging parents
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Select Plays: Julius Caesar
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Literature Reader
Author: Leroy E. ArmstrongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Hamlet, prince of Denmark
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Literature and Life
Author: Edwin GreenlawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Works of William Shakespeare
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare ...
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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