Shakespearean Representation : : Mimesis and Modernity in Elizabethan Tragedy / / Howard Felperin.
We are often told that Shakespeare is our contemporary, yet we insist just as often on the Elizabethan quality of his work as it reflects a culture remote from our own. Beginning with this paradox, Howard Felperin explores the question of modernity in literature. He directs his attention toward seve...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1978 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Essays in Literature ;
1752 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Poetics of Modernity: Homer and Others
- 2. O'erdoing Termagant: Hamlet
- 3. Plays Within Plays: Othello, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra
- 4. A Painted Devil: Macbeth
- 5. "Jacobean Decadence": Tourneur, Middleton, Webster, Ford
- Index