Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing Hardback: Authorship in the Proximity of Death - Hardcover

McMullan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052186304X ISBN 13: 9780521863049

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

This book is an account of the ways in which we have come to understand Shakespeare's final plays as an instance of the idea of 'late style'. It will be of interest to literature specialists, musicologists and art historians, and anyone curious about the relationship of creativity to death.

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Reviews of the hardback: 'Gordon McMullan's Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing is easily the best critical study of Shakespeare to appear this year. Packed with insights both theoretical and historical - and ranging from Edmond Malone to Henry James to Edward Said - it's the kind of book that literary scholars (as well as art and music historians) will want to keep close at hand.'  James Shapiro, Columbia University and author of 1599

'Inevitably, the book raises many questions, some explicit and others by implication. ... the very openness to questioning is one of the book's strengths, alongside its deft handling of an extensive and surprisingly diverse range of ideas, its refusal to follow a single intellectual path, and the skill with which it moves across disciplinary boundaries. It also demonstrates an elegance and modesty too often lacking in many discussions of complicated ideas. All this, and its open-mindedness, make it a very provocative, and a very important, book.' English Studies

Biografía del autor:

Gordon McMullan is Reader in English at King's College London.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 052186304X
• ISBN 13: 9780521863049
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 414