William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and John Donne's Holy Sonnets are read against the background of concepts of the soul during the early modern period. This approach provides new insights into concepts of interiority and performance as well as a new understanding of the soliloquy in both poetry and drama.
William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and John Donne's Holy Sonnets are read against the background of concepts of the soul during the early modern period. This approach provides new insights into concepts of interiority and performance as well as a new understanding of the soliloquy in both poetry and drama.
Angelika Zirker is Assistant Professor of English Philology (English Literature and Culture) at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: stages of the soul and drama in poetry Part I William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and the drama of the soul 1 Motivating the myth: allegory and psychology 2 'Thou art not what thou seem'st': Tarquin's inner stage and outer action 3 'But with my body my poor soul's pollution': Lucrece, her body, and soul 4 Lust-breathed Tarquin - Lucrece, the name of chaste: antagonism, parallelism, and chiasmus Part II John Donne's Holy Sonnets and the so(u)le-talk of the soul 5 Divine comedies: the speaker, his soul, and the poem as stage 6 The sonnet as miniature drama: Donne's Holy Sonnet 'Oh my black Soule' 7 Sole-talk and soul-talk: Donne's so(u)liloquies in the Holy Sonnets 8 The speaker on the stage of the poem: Holy Sonnet 'This is my Playes last Scene' 9 Dialogue and antagonism in Donne's theatre of the soul Part III Conclusion 10 So(u)le-talk, self, and stages of the soul Bibliography Index
Introduction: stages of the soul and drama in poetry Part I William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and the drama of the soul 1 Motivating the myth: allegory and psychology 2 'Thou art not what thou seem'st': Tarquin's inner stage and outer action 3 'But with my body my poor soul's pollution': Lucrece, her body, and soul 4 Lust-breathed Tarquin - Lucrece, the name of chaste: antagonism, parallelism, and chiasmus Part II John Donne's Holy Sonnets and the so(u)le-talk of the soul 5 Divine comedies: the speaker, his soul, and the poem as stage 6 The sonnet as miniature drama: Donne's Holy Sonnet 'Oh my black Soule' 7 Sole-talk and soul-talk: Donne's so(u)liloquies in the Holy Sonnets 8 The speaker on the stage of the poem: Holy Sonnet 'This is my Playes last Scene' 9 Dialogue and antagonism in Donne's theatre of the soul Part III Conclusion 10 So(u)le-talk, self, and stages of the soul Bibliography Index
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