Shakespeare and the Reason :: a Study of the Tragedies and the Problem Plays.

'Mr Hawkes is a good critic, oriented towards history of ideas. He operates on the formula that Shakespeare was interested in the available distinctions between discursive and intuitive reason, and disliked a growing tendency for the first to be thought of as manly and the second effeminate. On...

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1. Verfasser: Hawkes, Terence
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
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Zusammenfassung:'Mr Hawkes is a good critic, oriented towards history of ideas. He operates on the formula that Shakespeare was interested in the available distinctions between discursive and intuitive reason, and disliked a growing tendency for the first to be thought of as manly and the second effeminate. One sees how this action-contemplation polarity works, in Hamlet for instance, and Mr Hawkes thinks the kind of choices forced on tragic heroes can be better understood in terms of it.' Frank Kermode, New Statesman. In the seven plays on which the book concentrates, Terenc.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (339 pages)
ISBN:9781136567971
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