ISBN:
0801499100
,
9780801499104
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 269 pages
,
22 cm
Edition:
1st publ. Cornell Paperbacks
Year of publication:
1990
Series Statement:
Cornell paperbacks
Parallel Title:
Online version Bradshaw, Graham Shakespeare's scepticism
DDC:
822.3/3
Keywords:
Shakespeare, William Philosophy
;
Skepticism in literature
;
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
;
Skeptizismus
Abstract:
Explores the question of value in Shakespeare's drama. Bradshaw maintains that Shakespeare was preoccupied with the question throughout his career, and the plays themselves show how opposing visions of nature yield opposing accounts of value. He believes that Shakespeare's skepticism in respect to value represents a mode of dramatic thinking, which depends on the practices and conventions of poetic drama and must be distinguished from the processes of logical discursive argument.--From publisher description
Abstract:
Nature and value -- Framing perspectives -- Hamlet and the art of grafting -- The genealogy ideals : Troylus and Cressida -- Tempering mercy with justice : Measure for measure -- Imaginative openness and the Macbeth-terror
Note:
Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1987
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index
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