Simon Palfrey

Shakespeare's Possible Worlds (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

New methods are needed to do justice to Shakespeare. His work exceeds conventional models, past and present, for understanding playworlds. In this book, Simon Palfrey goes right to the heart of early modern popular drama, revealing both how it works and why it matters. Unlike his contemporaries, Shakespeare gives independent life to all his instruments, and to every fraction and fragment of the plays. Palfrey terms these particles 'formactions' - theatre-specific forms that move with their own action and passion. Palfrey's book is critically daring in both substance and format. Its unique mix of imaginative gusto, thought experiments, and virtuosic technique generates piercing close readings of the plays. There is far more to playlife than meets the eye. Influenced by Leibniz's visionary original model of possible worlds, Palfrey opens up the multiple worlds of Shakespeare's language, scenes, and characters as never before.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139950633
• Artikelnr.: 40831007

Autorenporträt

Simon Palfrey is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He is the joint founding editor of Shakespeare Now! His books include Late Shakespeare: A New World of Words (1997), Doing Shakespeare (2004, 2011 - named a Times Literary Supplement International Book of the Year), Shakespeare in Parts (with Tiffany Stern, 2007 - winner of an Arts and Humanities Research Council Innovations Award and the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society David Bevington Award for best new book on Medieval and Renaissance drama), and Poor Tom: Living 'King Lear' (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. Where is the life?
2. Purposes
3. Embryologies
4. Shakespeare the impossible
5. Popular theatre and possibility
6. Shakespeare v. actor
7. Formactions
8. Playing to the plot
9. Middleton
10. Jacobean comi-tragedy
11. Everyman tyrant
Part II: 12. The monadic playworld
13. The truth of anachronism
14. Possible history: Henry IV
15. Anti-rhetoric
16. Falstaff
17. Scenes within scenes
18. Strange mimesis
19. How close should we get?
20. Metaphysics and playworlds
21. Pyramids of possible worlds
Part III: 22. Perdita's possible lives
23. A life in scenes
24. Scene as joke: Much Ado
25. Buried lives: Macbeth
26. The rape of Marina
27. Life at the end of the line: Macbeth
28. Dying for life: Desdemona
Epilogue: life on the line.